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Word: scallion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scallion pancake, which they fried in the silver skillet in full view of the customers, tasted like a combination of the best pancakes from the Pancake House and an onion bagel. The dough was soft and tasty. The scallion pancake is a good appetizer to begin a meal with, and even better as an ending...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squid, Soup and Soy Sauce: A Chinatown Dinner Party | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...draw humor from the play even as he is interpreting it in an essentially solemn way. We expect the rustics and their "Pyramus and Thisbe" to be a comic staple, and certainly John Bottoms's eponymous, stage-struck Bottom, Jeremy Geidt's paternal, befuddled Quince, Max Wright's scallion-chomping Flute and their cohorts dig up laughs you'd only guessed at, reading the play. But the young lovers, too, keep their scenes from bogging down into indistinguishable, interchangeable laments: Sloan's strong-willed and-armed Helena gets a hapless Demetrius into a half-nelson, and literally dogs his path...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Out of Discord, Concord | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

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