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...same breath as a certain General Wong. Had you only insulted us, we might have left it at that. But to insult our chicken was completely out of line. General Wong is a grizzled, stringy man who covers up his lack of balls, as it were, with sweet-and-sour sauce, as it were. His chicken can be similarly described...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: From Our BULGING Mail Bagsā€¦ | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...VINCE MCMAHON pulled the plug on commercials for a controversial wrestling documentary that had been scheduled to air during UPN's SmackDown! and USA Network's Sunday Night Heat and Raw Is War, the movie's producers sensed a bid to kill their film. Imagine Entertainment says McMahon has sour grapes because it wouldn't let him buy Beyond the Mat, which was nominated for a Director's Guild award in the Best Director category. A WWF spokesman claims it's a publicity stunt, and the company has a policy of not airing "third-party" wrestling events during scheduled matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

Everyone knows the taste of sweet and sour, but what do hot and cold taste like? According to scientists from the Yale School of Medicine, temperature has its own flavors. Writing in the current issue of Nature, they report that warming the front of the tongue induces a suggestion of sweetness, and cooling it produces a salty or sour taste; chilling the back of the tongue, by contrast, creates a sour or bitter sensation. No one knows if these false taste sensations affect flavor, but experts suspect they are too faint for the brain to discern in the sensory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Matter of Taste | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...pulled the plug on commercials for a controversial wrestling documentary that were scheduled to air during UPN's "SmackDown!" and USA Network's "Sunday Night Heat" and "Raw Is War," the movie's producers sensed a bid to kill their film. Imagine Entertainment says McMahon has a case of sour grapes because it wouldn't let him buy "Beyond the Mat," which was nominated for a Director's Guild award in the Best Director category. A WWF spokesman claims it's a publicity stunt, and the company has a policy of not airing "third-party" wrestling events during scheduled matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vince McMahon Smacks Down a Wrestling Picture | 3/5/2000 | See Source »

...money the old-fashioned way: he has turned his college-dropout pad into a mini-casino, where he deals blackjack. It's a nice living, but not a lifestyle that offers much in the way of parental bragging rights. This is a matter of some moment to Seth's sour father (Ron Rifkin), a federal judge who has sentenced his son to life in the doghouse for his slacker ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: It's All in the Selling | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

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