Word: soups
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WHAT'S THE TOUGHEST THING YOU FIND ABOUT GETTING YOUR TWO KIDS [AGES 18 AND 13] READY FOR SCHOOL IN THE FALL? For moms and dads who are getting ready for back to school of public-school children, there's a lot of alphabet soup. There's a lot of bureaucratese and education mumbo jumbo: AYP [adequate yearly progress] and the HQT [highly qualified teacher]. I think it's sometimes intimidating for parents and sometimes hard to navigate as to what the meaning of all that is to your own child. Now I'm embarking on this whole new sending...
...accents; the way a thought strung out along one-syllable words will end, hesitantly, like a question mark. It was the same song I had heard in my aunt’s house and at my grandparents’ dinner table. It sounded like deep bowls of noodle soup and bright fish sauce, incense burning in a dark temple and the yellow dust of Saigon, cool tiles on the floor and quick rain falling in impenetrable sheets. The words were nothing. I knew the language...
...park's prosperity. He even chose the park's "auspicious" opening date. New construction was often begun with a traditional good-luck ceremony featuring a carved suckling pig. (Ironically, Disney kicked up trouble not by being too American but by being too Chinese. Disney offered to serve shark-fin soup at banquets, but the local favorite got yanked from the menu in June after environmentalists, who blame consumption of the delicacy for endangering the global shark population, howled in protest.) "Disney has learned that they can't impose the American will--or Disney's version of it--on another continent...
...inclusion of Bollywood movies, like Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy." Sean Williams, of Los Angeles, wrote, "I have 1,000 favorite films, so I know how hard it is to choose only 100, and you can't please everyone. Still, I would have listed the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. THANKS FOR INCLUDING BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN; SOME READERS MIGHT COMPLAIN, BUT IT'S A GREAT FILM." Less impressed was Alexander Shectman of Jerusalem, who said, "My Russian patriotism was offended by the absence of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, and I was astonished to see that those of D.W. Griffith shared...
...Vinton: I had sort of a split existence at home. My mother made only processed foods, but my grandmother made everything from scratch. If she made chicken soup, she would make her own noodles. I think that hard-wired my taste buds to look for authentic flavor...