Word: scorpion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Affectionately called the "Kong" by Harvard students, the seedy-looking cocktail lounge draws college students from all over the country because of its famous scorpion bowls, says lounge manager Lilly...
Chef Chow's. located in the Atrium on Church Street, is widely acknowledged as the best Chinese restaurant in the Square proper. In addition to a succulent General Gau's Chicken, Chow's prepares a scorching scorpion bowl, a liquor and fruit juice concoction that literally comes to the table on fire...
They crowd into the '70s-esque dining room, ready to top off the evening with a Scorpion Bowl and greasy Peking Ravs...
...name is Songlian (Gong Li), and she has just come to be the fourth concubine of the master (Ma Jingwu). The first mistress is old and irrelevant; the second is ingratiating, lethal, with "a Buddha's face and a scorpion's heart"; the third a saucily imperious opera singer. Each day the chamberlain will raise the red lantern in front of one of their houses, and that woman will be blessed with the master's favors. His strategy, supported by millenniums of male domination, is divide and conquer. So the caged princesses must play power games, with their rivals...
...novel is clear, simple and powerful, and it is great, rowdy fun to read. Brown balances his fond but unsentimental portrait of Joe Ransom with stinging | sketches of a weed-tough young white-trash boy named Gary, who tags after Joe, and of Gary's evil father, a human scorpion named Wade. If anyone doubted it, Flem Snopes lives...