Word: paragoning
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After the 2000 Florida recount, I was worried that California's distinction as America's paragon of peculiarity was in danger of being lost to another state. Happily the Golden State is once again playing the role as the country's flagship theater of the absurd. ROY KOMOTO South Pasadena, Calif...
...After the 2000 Florida recount, I was worried that California's distinction as America's paragon of peculiarity was in danger of being lost to another state. Happily the Golden State is once again the country's flagship theater of the absurd. Roy Komoto South Pasadena...
...look reporterly? Is that olive oil on my sleeve?--but DiSpirito, 36, is the kind of star chef who is as accustomed to the heat of floodlights as to that of a 30,000-BTU burner. Bedroom-eyed and sporting a dusting of stubble, DiSpirito runs Union Pacific, a paragon of gilded, inventive Manhattan dining. He is a regular on the Food Network and the Today show. Now he's hoping his two vocations will meld like orecchiette and broccoli rabe at his new restaurant, Rocco's, which doubles as the set of a reality-TV show. The Restaurant...
...reconcile yang and yin? In "The Hulk", Eric Bana deftly does. He's the strongman - a 6'3", lifeguard-handsome Aussie - who plays it nerdy and needy, a strapping scientist with a troubled little boy inside. Suddenly you notice that the lantern jaw has a weak chin, that this paragon is all too roilingly human. It's the engaging fallibility that marks Bana as more than just an element in a huge marketing campaign. Ang Lee's big green monster movie may not be a smash (it already has flies buzzing around it), but Bana looks likely to become...
...have followed the child abuse scandal would be able to discern in Law the vestiges of a college student who came across to many who knew him as the pious paragon of Catholic virtue...