Word: sours
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...Then again, you never know how serious von Trier is. He created the super-austere Dogme 95 style of filmmaking, which was copied by many even as he outgrew and denounced it. His last picture, The Boss of It All, was a comedy with a sour taste, so you can't be sure that Antichrist is as dead-serious as it appears. Maybe the movie is a big deadpan joke, an antic-hrist. What's certain is that serious film people on several continents will be talking about von Trier's latest affront, defending or deriding it, finding it hard...
...laboring mother is rushed in for care. OBs don't see the uneventful births that proceed successfully at home. What's more, doctors in this position find themselves not just being forced to take on someone else's case, but someone else's problem. That's enough to sour them on the entire profession...
...Sterns' nation is one with at least a few places still serving the Kentucky burgoo (thick stew) Kurlansky dug up in those WPA files, as well as South Carolina perloo (meat-and-rice dish), Wisconsin hoppel poppel (meal in a skillet), Ohio sauerkraut balls and even the Vermont sour-milk doughnuts that Kurlansky longs for. The Sterns' America has endless varieties of hot dogs and dueling chowders. It's a land where men still gather to eat lamb fries, prairie oysters and other forms of animal testicle...
...Sterns, technology has made local food more vibrant, with people trading recipes and restaurant suggestions online. If anything, the Sterns are confused as to why many of these dishes are still regional - why, for example, the Midwest's sour-cream raisin pie hasn't joined Texas' nachos on more menus. They also think the U.S.'s local cuisine is kept fresh since it is always being tinkered with because of our lack of a food canon. While there might be only one right way to make bouillabaisse in France, there's always a new argument about how to barbecue...
...second time Benedict, 82, has gotten decidedly mixed reviews on his handling of a Holocaust-related visit. He had visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in 2006 and poignantly asked, "Where was God?" when the Nazis carried out Hitler's Final Solution. But the same speech hit several sour notes in the ears of Jewish leaders, as the Pope failed to cite anti-Semitism as a cause of the genocide. Instead, he wondered if Christianity wasn't ultimately Hitler's final target, and summarily disposed of the complicated moral question of German society's "collective responsibility" by blaming the systematic extermination...