Word: platter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever since Thanksgiving I've been having this weird dream. The turkey on the platter gets up, turns into a live turkey, and starts growing into a giant bird. It then starts talking to me and making moral judgments about my life, even about the person I'm seeing. I try and get the turkey to shut up but it won't. I try and run away but it follows me. I'm getting really tired of this. Is there anything I can do to make this turkey stop haunting me? I've tried sleeping with the light on, eating...
...Luck Club, born as a best-selling book, leads a recent surge in popular new movies written or directed by Asians. They include M. Butterfly, written by David Henry Hwang, the U.S.-born son of Chinese immigrants; the comedy Combination Platter, directed by Chinese-American filmmaker Tony Chan; and The Wedding Banquet, a comedy directed by Ang Lee, who moved to the U.S. from Taiwan. Asian-style kickboxing movies have found an eager audience in the U.S. Recently one of Hong Kong's best filmmakers, John Woo, relocated to Los Angeles to direct the action movie Hard Target (which stars...
...bound in a strange relationship to this piece of collective memory. We never felt the magic that our elders tell us flowed from this more-than president. We know little about who he was or the ideas for which he stood. Instead, we are handed Camelot on a platter...
...Ironically, the perceived sterility only goes so far. The dining experience is actually rather unclean by our ethnocentric Western standards; there are neither napkins nor silverware for the patrons, and with two of our guests affected with mysterious sniffles, your reviewers were somewhat uneasy about picking at a communal platter with pieces of injera--spongy, sour, pancake-like bread...
...when they gave Asmara its award for excellence in "spicy meat dishes," those critics must have liked their spices dull. From the vegetarian section, we chose a lentil mush, which didn't taste much different from the other mush they slopped down for free in the center of our platter. Not to say that that was a bad thing; although a bit bland, both of them were entirely unoffensive, until one of our guests stopped using the bread and started picking at it with his fingers. All of us took that habit up eventually, because the bread was so sour...