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...work producing hundreds of kites for use in China on the set of the highly anticipated adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner. Agha says he treats every kite he is making for the movie as a work of art, marking each with his name and signature scorpion image. Even though few of the kites will be used in competition, he incorporates in their manufacture the techniques he has honed through years of flying and fighting--using precision to curve the bamboo frame, creating invisible joints and employing a method for impregnating cotton twine with ground glass, the better...
...Kong: fine for scorpion bowls and chicken dumplings, but an unlikely place to go for intellectual stimulation. Until now. Last Monday, Charlie P. Pierce, a staff reporter for The Boston Globe’s Sunday Magazine, author, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio’s “It’s Only a Game” discussed his newest book, “Moving the Chains: Tom Brady and the Pursuit of Everything,” at Hong Kong restaurant in collaboration with Harvard Book Store and The Boston Phoenix. “We wanted to hold...
...randy sophomore put a picture of herself on Facebook. In it, she is touching a penis. The Toscanini’s barista crew put in an appearance at the Advo’s Friday the 13th bash last weekend. An entire wedding party crashed the Kong for celebratory Scorpion Bowls and shots on Saturday night. The bride was graduated from Dartmouth. Obviously. Finally, Crazy Doughs offered coupons for two free slices of pizza and soda—but patrons seeking to cash in on the deal had a rude discovery: They had to sign up for a Discover Card before...
...being under the influence basically beget a brawl? We don’t drink because we’re angry, the logic goes, we’re angry because we drink, too much. But “rage” isn’t just showing up after scorpion bowls and beer kegs. Road rage plagues the highway and air rage is only the latest response to tightened regulations aboard mid-air flights. Passengers are increasingly dishing out dollars for the airline alcohol, speaking abusively to flight attendants, and behaving erratically in response to strict restrictions...
...raucous night at the Kong—but deep pockets? No, they haven’t made drinks any more expensive. Rather, you’ll need plenty of space to fill your britches with those colorful plastic animals that adorn the Kong’s signature spirit, the Scorpion Bowl. According to page 336 of this year’s Harvard Student Agencies Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard (read: one big, sometimes inaccurate advertisement, see page 9), you should stock up and “donate the little plastic animals to UC Vice President Annie [R.] Riley...