Word: mein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jiangsu isn't a variant of Chow Mein, but the second-best hoop squad in the People's Republic of China, which beat a visiting Harvard team...
...denying his links with the West. Austin is seeking also to escape his and Lee's parents, who represent a warped flip side of the American dream. Their father, who remains offstage, is a drunkard who once put his false teeth in a doggie bag filled with chow mein, and then left the bag in a bar along a Mexican highway. Their mother, who returns from Alaska in the final scene, is perfectly tacky, uncomprehending, and well-meaning. She appears terribly excited because she read in a newspaper that Picasso is visiting the local museum. She refuses to believe Austin...
Still he caused no alarm. Says German History Professor Otto Nelson: "I never picked up anything unusual or bizarre about him. He never asked a thing in class." (Hinckley did, however, choose to specialize: one paper focused on Hitler's Mein Kampf, his other on Auschwitz.) Says Mark Swafford, one of his Lubbock landlords: "I only saw him with another human being one time." Hinckley's student life was a sad, remote vigil. "Everywhere there were empty bags from hamburger joints and cartons of ice cream," says Swafford. "He just sat there the whole time, staring...
...Coubertin, who argued for French colonialism as ardently as he did for reviving the Olympics, admired the relationship between British colonialism and sports in the public schools. Every Etonian knows how Wellington is supposed to have explained Waterloo. Hitler, who had a way with brass tacks, said bluntly in Mein Kampf: Give me an athlete and I'll give you an army -which he did, to Austria, two years after the success of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Of course, "war minus the shooting" may be a way of justifying the Games, but that is something quite different from stating...
...elegant Cantonese restaurant," she added: "It was just plain dreadful and very expensive. If you found that kind of Chinese food in a Las Vegas nightclub, you'd say, 'Well, for a Las Vegas nightclub, this is what I would expect.' I have had better chow mein at the Copacabana in the '40s." Mimi was also "very seriously thinking" of talking to her lawyers...