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...capital, Petropavlovsk, founded in 1740 by Danish explorer Vitus Bering--for whom the Bering Sea and Strait are named--is a morass of Soviet-style apartment blocks and potholed streets, incongruously framed by a mist-swathed harbor and snowcapped volcanoes. Its few hotels and restaurants are drab. Yet we found a certain eccentric charm in menus featuring "fern salad" and "boiled pieces of paste" for breakfast, and "burning mussels with rice" and "cowberry drink" for dinner...
...Lily Ho and Chin Ping) loses the man she loves. Under the Japanese director Inoue Umetsugu, the girls soldier on gorgeously, through a dozen songs that portray the territory as a Paris with sweet sauce: "Hong Kong is a lovers' paradise," these Chinese chanteuses warble, "Love, like mist, covers blemishes...
...There's no mist in the 1983 Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, a science-fiction satire that shows the locals, warts and all, as greedy or desperate folks. Lovely Tian-zhen (Cherie Chung) can marry her rich beau if she can prove she's a virgin. Just before the medical exam, she is abducted by aliens and impregnated. Alex Cheung's parody of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars climaxes with a madcap battle between Darth Vader and a sleazy detective in drag. One lightsaber becomes a numchuk; another goes limp at a fatal moment ("Should...
...Vapir heralds as the very “essence of plant.” With the use of infrared rays, convection currents and its own microprocessor, the Vapir is capable of heating herbs to temperatures up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit, releasing the herb as a barely visible vapor mist rather than as smoke...
They are gassing us! We really beg not to be gassed. We hope it will not be like the Kursk!" As a thick, visible mist enveloped hostages and their takers in Moscow's House of Culture theater, Anya cried for help through her cell phone. The hostage thought she was about to suffocate slowly just like the sailors trapped aboard the crippled Russian submarine Kursk in 2000. "We see it, we feel it, we are breathing through our clothes. We are all going to be blown...