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...HOTTEST NEWS The bistro. The food world seems to concur that this traditional favorite is back in style, but there is little agreement about what the word means. To some it stands for eateries serving such traditional French fare as coq au vin, pot-au-feu and gigot. To others a bistro is merely a cafe with quick and simple food, much of it indistinguishable from California cuisine. Symbolic of the confusion is the representation in a new book, American Bistro, by Irena Chalmers and Friends (Contemporary; $35). Cited are Kansas City's high-style American Restaurant and the posh...
...nation's best-selling toy, but for kids serious about their shooting, Lazer Tag is the game to get. Out only three months and already No. 5 on the Toy Hit Parade, it is the hottest item of the season. Getting right down to bang-bang-you're-dead business, younger ones like to charge with StarLytes blazing, making the StarSensor glow and sound every time a hit is scored. Bigger kids (including daddies) prefer to lurk and prowl, hide and take careful aim. Either way, Lazer Tag is a more elegant way of working out aggression than the Rambo...
Circumstances and editors beyond my control gave the Duluth paper permission to reprint the piece. Overnight I became the hottest topic in Duluth...
There is tremendous misuse of words and phrases which stems from ignorance about the words' definitions. Some of this is particularly common in the speech of people outside the fields of humanities from which these words come. Often we hear that deconstructionism is the hottest new wave in literary analysis. But how many of us know even a little about how it works? And how many of us forget that rationalism refers specifically to the belief that humans have a cognitive faculty which allows for reason independent of experience (it does not simply refer to the process of "thinking logically...
...public reappearance proved that accounts of his passing had been greatly exaggerated. Thus the hottest diplomatic game of the week became trying to figure out who had been doing what to whom. As antagonists of 36 years' standing who regularly wage often arcane propaganda wars against each other, both North and South Korea had plenty of motives to engage in political fabrications. Both countries, moreover, have lately shown signs of instability that could somehow have played a role in the strange episode...