Word: soft
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Miami's new fare depends on a wealth of fresh tropical materials, but the pride of the region is still its fish. Indian River soft-shell crabs and conch are year-round regulars on menus, as are pompano, dolphinfish, yellowfin tuna and lesser-known delicacies like wahoo and cobia, both meatier, more flavorful catches. There are endless variations on snapper -- yellowtail, mangrove, hog and mutton -- all of them sweeter, firmer and more tender than the red snapper shipped out of state...
...miles from Musawi's well-guarded office, visitors to the archaeological sites are pestered by the keepers of five camels with brightly colored saddlebags. "Have your picture taken on a camel. Only $1!" they shout in Arabic and French. Hucksters offer cold soft drinks, small brass replicas of the temples and postcards...
Instead, on a pleasantly cool Monday night in June, the soft-spoken 19-year- old, who grew up in the public-housing projects in Bridgeport, Conn., proudly marched into the local civic auditorium with 128 other green-and- white-robed members of the Bassick High School graduating class of 1991. He didn't sit on the podium with the class leaders, nor was he one of the nine students who wore a blue satin collar symbolizing membership in the National Honor Society. But for James, his family, his neighborhood and even for this country, the mere fact that...
...caressed every lover as if he were a child with a fever. Garbo made her last film in 1941, when Hollywood was called the Dream Factory; skeptics said it dressed up lies as art. So why -- it can't be only nostalgia -- do those old films, for all their soft focus and happy endings, seem truer than today's? Because the scale was different, smaller, more intimate. Films weren't fairy tales of destruction and salvation. Men weren't all muscle or women all flesh...
...keeper," the stories barrel along with logic-bending abandon; even when the ending fizzles (a frequent problem), getting there is a wild ride. Among the summer's highlights so far: Beau Bridges and Tony Goldwyn as brothers who trade sadistic practical jokes in a morgue, Malcolm McDowell as a soft-hearted vampire who opts for safe sustenance by raiding the local blood bank, and Jon Lovitz as a sad-sack actor who auditions for a far-off- Broadway production of Hamlet. Turns out that the only role available is Yorick. Alas, poor Lovitz...