Word: meal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having agreed to share entrees, I was a bit nervous about my choice, "chicken vegetable fried noodle." How could this bland little meal ever compare to curry chicken or squid? Fortunately, the squid was too chewy for most, and the chicken, though popular, was too spicy for my taste...
...vegetable noodles, however, were an overwhelming hit. The noodles were a bit thinner and crisper than standard Lo Mein fare, but the difference was appealing. Generous portions of scallions and mushrooms and lightly fried chicken rounded out the meal, and complemented the Molson well...
...range of characteristics. His best moments explore the extent of male folly. His characters are often driven by lust, a drive that they often do not understand or which threatens to overwhelm them. A bombastic portrait of a Married to the Mob type who has just eaten a huge meal is particularly on target. As he advises his nephew Vincent to fall in love, he reminisces about his own youth, when he was a "human hard-on" and "a dick with clothes on." "You don't get married," he warns, "you never going to have a Christmas tree...
...leaders sought temporary asylum in southern Thailand. Others went underground and hinted at a more violent form of opposition. Said Min Ko Naing, a student leader in Rangoon: "We have stopped using our mouths to protest, and warn the group that calls itself the government to seek their last meal...
...sunrise every morning in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, the Shanker family gets ready for work. Steven Shanker, 37, and his wife Avima, 35, wake their two sons, Elan, 5, and Dannel, 2, for a hurried breakfast of cereal and orange juice. After the meal Avima heads off by 7:30 to her job as an engineer at Librascope, a computer firm. Then, as other pinstriped parents up and down the San Fernando Valley march out to their cars with groggy children in tow, Steven, a vice president at Union Bank in nearby Monterey Park, drives the boys...