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...late '70s, he came to believe that if Thais were exposed to pizza, they would like it. "I operate on the belief that, fundamentally, we're all more similar than dissimilar," he says. He built on his success with Pizza Hut by landing franchises for Mister Donut, Swensen's, Sizzler, Dairy Queen and Burger King. Then he added seven hotels to his empire, including Bangkok's Marriott Royal Garden Riverside. He also distributes Esprit clothing and Red Earth cosmetics and other consumer products. When the Thai economy collapsed in 1998, Heinecke's conglomerate also swooned but clawed its way back...
...build a nuclear plant in Nagasaki b) create a Titanic-themed water park c) open a disco in an Auschwitz building d) put a Sizzler in the Vatican...
...readers with a short attention span, Chaudhuri offers paragraph-long summaries of each novel at the beginning of the text. Completely eliminating the entertainment value of the plot, this is his way of deterring thrill seekers in search of an action-packed sizzler. He cultivates a reading audience willing to linger and savor the sensations he painstakingly recreates. This is a man in love with language. Each of his sentences is a work of art, making it clear that it's the arrangement of syllables and not the plot that matters to Chaudhuri...
...nine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center were shipping out for the gulf. Two days after the Marines and their families learned of the mobilization, a local wedding chapel performed 30 weddings. Robert Lauffer, editor of the High Desert Star, went to dinner at a local restaurant, the Sizzler, and could hardly get past the crowd waiting to be seated. "At practically every table," he recalls, "there was one young guy with short hair, surrounded by family, friends and an equally young wife or girlfriend." The Marines' wives formed support groups, each centered on a wife who has been...
...real name is Kevin Costner, and this backseat sizzler with Sean Young from the hit political thriller No Way Out has people lining up at movie theaters across the country. With a startlingly different look as the intrepid crime crusader Eliot Ness, Costner is also drawing crowds to The Untouchables. < These bookend summer successes have cinched his status as Hollywood's new romantic leading man. With his tall, rangy good looks and cool American strength, Costner, 32, is an old-fashioned movie hero. Like such stars as Gary Cooper, Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart, he can fill the screen with...