Word: soured
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instantly. In NBC's Flesh 'n' Blood, a yuppie lawyer (Lisa Darr) is visited by her long-lost brother (David Keith), a hillbilly layabout, and his two unwashed kids. Much to her dismay (and ours), they promptly move in. In CBS's < The Royal Family, Redd Foxx plays a sour Atlanta mailman whose sunset years with his wife (Della Reese) are interrupted by yet another band of unwanted relatives: their daughter and grandchildren from Philadelphia. It's hard to know which is more annoying -- these paper-thin pretexts for put-down jokes or the cavalier way they are tossed aside...
...seared citrus-crusted yellowfin tuna with a macedoine of papaya, mango and yellow pepper. At Mark's Place, North Miami diners line up early for Mark Militello's signature dish, curry fried oysters nestled on a tamarind-banana salsa and West Indian bread, all topped with an orange sour cream. "It's a long way from fried dolphin fingers," says Militello, laughing...
...talking serious vinegar now, the familiar sour wine (a literal translation of the French vin aigre) that has become the condiment of the hour -- and not just to sprinkle on salads or pickle veggies. As diet-conscious customers shun butter and cream, top toques at grand-luxe restaurants increasingly use it to give low-cal piquancy to their creations. At Manhattan's Montrachet, chef Debra Ponzek uses champagne vinegar as a basis for lemongrass sauce and dollops cider vinegar into a ginger sauce for roast duck...
Both rice-wine vinegars -- vital to Oriental cuisine -- and dark, mellow sherry vinegars are fast sellers at specialty stores around the country. Even more popular among foodies is Modena's aromatic, sweet-sour balsamic variety. Alas, most of the cheap brands on the U.S. market bear little resemblance to the syrupy real stuff, which costs as much as X.O. Cognac...
...speculation -- some of it inside Yeltsin's entourage -- that they might attempt a military coup to prevent anything like it from being carried out, in Russia or the other republics. Actually, though, the greater danger might be that Yeltsin will simply be unable to deliver, and his failure will sour a disillusioned populace not only on him but on democracy itself. Yeltsin takes office considerably overpromised. For example, he has pledged a hefty increase in pensions without offering any idea of how he proposes to raise the money. He runs pretty much a one-man show: he has made little...