Word: soups
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Remove the language barrier, and Yao is your standard 22-year-old jock. He loves pizza, ribs, wings and Frappuccinos--in addition to his mother's soup and dumplings. He wears a bracelet from his basketball-playing girlfriend in China. He spends much of his free time sleeping and the rest jumping between gratuitously violent computer games and gratuitously violent action flicks. (A recent night in with Yao: watching The Bourne Identity on DVD while playing Counter-Strike. "He sat in the corner with his computer," says Pine, "and said, 'Just tell me when there's a fight.'") In Shanghai...
...What's after books and used merchandise? "Ramen shops," he answers. "In this country there's no big ramen chain. It's an industry that could be modernized. Soup is a food you could perfect and duplicate in standardized shops nationwide." Will the name be, um, Soupoff? No, no, he says. It will be something bigger and grander, to reflect his expanding vision. It will be called, he says, World Champion Ramen...
...watercress soup was dramatically decanted at the table from a small jug into a square bowl (presumably in keeping with the new name) in the center of which sat a small piece of lobster tail. The appearance was stunning, the soup a deep green that would have seemed more at home on a canvas than at a dinner table. That said, it should have been warmer—a frequent problem—and desperately needed more salt. Salt and pepper shakers are not put on the table, a rather affected touch, it seems, and if management is determined...
...assassinate someone. The ban was issued, it will be recalled, because the CIA had been trying to bump off a lot of world leaders, from Patrice Lumumba in the Congo to Castro in Cuba, where the agency hired the Mafia to try to put botulinum toxin in Castro's soup...
...their hearts, many TV producers probably fancy themselves Andy Warhols: pop artists who make the stuff of mass culture and commerce into art, as Warhol did with the Campbell's soup can. Dick Wolf thinks of himself as the Campbell Soup Co. The man who runs the Law & Order empire--on which, thanks to spin-offs and cable repeats, the sun never sets--had a first career in advertising, writing copy for the likes of Crest toothpaste. So it is without irony that he often compares his cop shows to the red-and-white can. "If you like soup...