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...take refuge and put yourself at the mercy of the food. Order the Monkfish with Fennel Puree, Shallot Jus and Chanterelles ($16.95). The capers melt in your mouth, the fish is white and tender and the accompanying mashed potatoes are completely integrated into the whole eating experience. Some restaurants slap down an ice-cream scoop dollop of mushy tuber that screams, "Here, you want starch, you got starch!" Not this place. Here even potatoes are treated as the god of all side dishes and are served with panache...
Last night, the board gave a mild slap on the wrist to 15 local business owners--among them the owners of The Hasty Pudding Club and Christy's in Harvard Square--who failed to attend a summer training session on underage alcohol consumption...
...Screening of questions: Rudenstine, in his introduction of Jiang at Sanders Theatre declared: "[The] best path toward achieving such understanding is through freedom of inquiry, and freedom of expression--in our universities and in our larger societies." These words come as a slap in the face, knowing that the University decided to screen questions to Jiang. We are deeply concerned that this decision is in direct conflict with academic standards of free inquiry and free expression...
...drawn, when the child of Germany observes nothing." But "Hister" or "Ister" is simply the Latin name for the Danube; all the second line says is "the greater part of the field will be against (or along) the Hister." But facts don't get in Hogue's way--just slap the "L" in to make "Histler" and you're cooking...
Religious allusion fits perfectly into the band's concept album mold--especially as a slap in the face of the irreverence usually associated with the genre. Blending in with the sanctimonious flow, the mantra "Let's be forever, let forever be free" brings the religious overtones to a new dimension. Barring the colorful electronic twinkle repeated throughout "The Mollusk," the lyrical gravity of this song belies the guitar-strumming sappiness...