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...before, the samurai of the speed-eating world seemed to have sensed that he may have met his match. At a press conference Kobayashi took a deep breath and slowly bowed his head. Such a move normally signals the beginning of his onslaught on a pile of food - hot dogs, cow brains, rice balls - that he devours in record time. But when Kobayashi looked up, he did not have hot dogs flopping out of his mouth. Rather he had tears streaming down his face...
...with fish, but refused to divulge more.) Mabrouk hauled me into the kitchen to show me some other reasons for Lucille's success: fresh, organic ingredients. Six kitchen butchers double-grind ultra-lean round and rump steaks, mixing in a secret ratio of "clean" fat, and then double-press the patties in a mold to ensure cooking consistency. The lettuce, tomato and onions are grown in the Nile River basin's year-round sunshine, requiring no preservatives. "It really boils down to the fact that it's all homemade," Lucille tells me. "We've gone back to basics...
...could go on. And sure, you and I and Danny Fanboy over there could come up with a list of nitpicks a yard long, too. (Did I mention that the camera photos have a strange glowy, vaseline-y quality to them? And personally I like a hardware button to press to take pictures, instead of software, placed parallel to the plane of the device, or I end up with shaky images. And either my thumbs are bigger than normal people's, or it really is tricky to type on this thing.) It's certainly tempting to. The hype...
...This may in part because it was Michael Cunningham, author of the book The Hours, another stupefying exercise in unspoken angst, who was hired to punch up the script Susan Minot was trying to make out of her novel. They share screenplay credit for Evening, but even in the press kit you can sense her loathing for his work. He's sort of Henry James without the cojones and definitely the most constipated sensibility the literary community has lately been in awe of. But I suspect that the director, Lajos Koltai, a Hungarian, has even more to do with...
Smith's letter also signaled that he intends to press ahead with efforts that have occupied the Faculty for the past year, including implementing the new general education program for undergraduates and following through on a landmark review of teaching released earlier this year...