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...Osaka, John Montgomery, and a booklet was prepared, subtitled "Food and the Getting of It" and setting out such cultural niceties as the proper pronunciation of Kyoto (kyo-to not ki-yo-too) and how to order up big in a noodle bar: ramen oh-mori! The most important phrase? "Probably onegaishimasu," says tour manager John Glenn. "Please can you help me. And just being able to say thank you, arrigato. Or arrigato gozaimasu, thank you very much." In a society as formal as Japan's, knowing the difference can be crucial, and it put the orchestra in good stead...
Donna Botti and her daughter Angela, 16, share those sentiments. On a recent Saturday evening as Angela was getting ready for a friend's sweet-16 party at a downtown Vegas club, she belatedly noticed the phrase "Parent Drop-off and Pickup Preferred" on her invitation. "How stupid is that? I have my own car," she scoffed. Although the festivities were supposed to end at 10 p.m., Angela had no intention of racing home in her shiny '05 Hyundai Tucson to make curfew. In fact, she and her parents said they were unaware that nighttime restrictions for teens existed until...
...rockers; the requisite ballads are here too. Finn takes advantage of the slower tempos to use some heavier lyrics: “Citrus” recreates the meeting of Jesus and Judas at an alcohol-soaked high school party, while “First Night” repeats the phrase “Words alone never could save...
Secondly, a nearly inexhaustible source of procrastination is a phenomenon known as TV on DVD. Missed the last five seasons of “24” because you were in Lamont, writing response papers? Have no idea what the phrase “live together, die alone” refers to? Never got around to finding out how that whole Ross-Rachel thing worked out? The solution to these pressing issues lies in two words: Netflix membership. Sign up and let the 18-hour marathons begin...
...often hilarious, "Ed" is the TV equivalent of a good date movie. As an ironic plus, it's produced by Worldwide Pants, the production company of David Letterman. In the second episode Ed represents an aging magician suing over the theft of his act, or "intellectual property" - the same phrase that NBC invoked to screw Letterman out of much of his act when he took his show to CBS in 1993. "Ed" is sweet. But revenge is sweeter...