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...local cuisines and the locals who make them: "In Greensboro they were talking rice and gravy but I didn't know it because in the Carolinas nobody calls rice 'rice.' Down in Charleston they call it 'perlew' and up in Greensboro they call it 'pie-low' and cook books spell it 'pilau,' to mean 'rice pilaf.' " In Wisconsin, she finds that orange whitefish roe is dyed black and processed into caviar primarily for the Japanese market. She gives us a glimpse of Indian salmon ceremonies in the Northwest that include a song beginning "Thank you Swimmer, you Supernatural One, that...
When in Three Sisters Olga, Masha and Irina yearn for Moscow, they echo the youthful Chekhov. He fell under the city's spell while attending medical school, where none of his fellow students connected him with "Antosha Chekhonte," the pseudonym under which he wrote comic stories. It was not until 1887, with the staging of his play Ivanov, that the public knew the author as A.P. Chekhov. Reviewers were generally hostile; "a flippantly cynical piece of foolishness, foul and immoral," said the man from the Muscovite Newssheet. But with the appearance of the story The Steppe in 1888, Chekhov...
...only did the victory qualify Harvard for the Atlantic Coast Championships on the weekend of November 8 at New York, but it also ended a 25-year dry spell for the Schell Trophy...
...documentary. Those millions who saw Pumping Iron did not easily forget the images of men so surrealistically proportioned they could not reach into their own pockets. The Body, as Arnold was then known, launched himself on a quest for movie stardom, not to rest until the entire world can spell his name with only moderate effort...
...went head to head with No. 1 Oklahoma while Testaverde at least seemed to be similarly engaged with Brian Bosworth. Events in college football have seldom been so clear cut. Bosworth is an unruly linebacker who prunes his head like a boxwood bush and streaks it with rainbows to spell out individuality. Even as its children have taken to emulating him, the Oklahoma Bible Belt has somehow been able to rationalize Bosworth, to forgive the occasional "loogie" he talks of spitting into opponents' faces, and to disregard some other troubling things he says, like "I used to beat my sisters...