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...longer provokes angry protests--as he did when he announced his intention to reorganize the Phillips Brooks House (PBH)--and he doesn't grab the headlines...
...roasted chilies and very hot. Indian hot is fascinating, not hitting the top of the palate quite as directly as, say, Mexican heat, but sneaking in somehow on the oil in the dish. You take a bite and another, and then suddenly the heat rolls in, causing a grab for the water glass. I liked Bombay Club's version, the heat off-set by the potatoes in the sauce and by an accompaniment of cool mint yogurt raita...
...ostensibly humorous nighttime talk shows: The X Show, premiering on FX this Wednesday (11 p.m. E.T. each weeknight); and The Man Show, a weekly series making its debut on Comedy Central June 16 (10:30 p.m. E.T.). Clearly influenced by the get-a-babe-and-grab-the-largest-brew clubbiness proffered in the men's magazines, the two shows have hosts almost interchangeable in their ordinariness, sets that look like a freshman lounge, and a fair amount of Fred Flintstone-ish whining about the demandingness of women...
What causes the epidemic of imitation? "You need a cat to do the copying," says Harvard psychologist William Pollack. "It starts with kids who are already somewhere close to the edge." Copycats model themselves on crimes, both real and fictional, that grab a lot of attention. When the movie Money Train came out a few years ago, with a scene of flammable liquid being squirted into a New York City token booth and set on fire, real-life robbers duplicated the act and badly burned a token clerk. After the TV movie The Burning Bed aired in 1984, with Farrah...
...pointers on how to commit a crime effectively--so-called mode copying. In Los Angeles in the mid 1980s, robbers started breaking car windows with bricks and snatching handbags--a bluntly effective technique that was quickly picked up by imitators and came to be known as the "smash and grab." But copycat criminals are often lured by the sheer thrill of making headlines. They see America in a furor over Pepsi tampering or high school shootings, and regard it as a quick way to achieve significance. It is a power trip for the powerless, those who feel they have nothing...