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...still have their eyes and tails," he says, turning over a soupy mixture between his fingers. "But they'll all decompose soon enough, don't worry." Descending, he springs to another wooden vat and turns a valve, filling a snifter with a warm amber liquid. This is prized nuoc mam, fermented for more than a year. Bang holds the liquid up to the light, swirls it around, takes a sniff of the pungent bouquet, puts the glass to his lips-and gives a satisfied smile...
...through the second one, it's been almost two years since I've had dinner with my family during the week," says Columbus, who'll serve as executive producer on the next movie. His replacement: Alfonso Cuarón, a surprising choice since his last film was Y tu mamátambién, the racy, critically hailed Mexican road movie about two teenage boys and an older woman in a love triangle. But Cuarón has also had experience adapting the works of some other esteemed British authors - Frances Hodgson Burnett (1995's A Little Princess) and Charles...
...minutes ago, I received an unsolicited e-mail with the header "Bigger breasts - Men Will Look." This bit of mam-spam promised a pill or pulley (can't be sure: I didn't click on the link) that was "Guaranteed to increase, lift and firm your breasts in 60 days or your money back!! 100% herbal and natural. Proven formula since 1996. Increase your bust by 1 to 3 sizes within 30-60 days and be all natural. Absolutely no side effects! Be more self confident! Be more comfortable in bed! No more need for a lift or support...
...first prize in 1979 for On Human Nature, and his second in 1991 for The Ants, a mam-moth volume that served as the basis for the computer game SimAnt...
...autobiography as this gentleman is likely to vouchsafe. And in its evocations of Bennett's early years, it offers a virtual oratorio of embarrassment. His father, the butcher, played double bass in a jazz band and produced herb beer at home but succeeded at neither. His prim "Mam" made a religion of getting along; eventually she retreated into what Bennett calls "her flat, unmemoried days," like a meeker George III. Young Alan sought glamour in Leeds' double-decker trams, musty mystery in the artifacts of Grandma's parlor. Later he would realize he had a great subject in this gray...