Word: stew
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...Maybe we hope Gene Kelly will still come tapping down the Montmartre sidewalks as once he did. If that's the case then 2 Days in Paris will not be your dish of Pernod. But if a dose of skepticism (see Jack trying to come to grips with rabbit stew) and multilingual frenzy (dealing with a vegan saboteur in a fast food restaurant) does not seem entirely amiss to you, this anti romantic and anti-comic - it's not as funny as Delpy seems to think it is - movie may appeal to the dark side of your immune system...
...some coal, and returned shortly before electricity and water were cut off. As the waters rose, 40-year-old Xu and her family huddled on the top floor of their house. Outside boats weaved between building tops; window frames floated in the water. For days they lived on corn stew cooked over a coal fire. "I got more and more scared," she says. "Qu county floods every year. But this is the biggest flood I have seen. It rose much higher than I expected...
...made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. One day he was shocked to see Paris police randomly stopping nonwhites. Then, while searching for an obscure cinema ("I'm a big movie buff, five or six a week"), he discovered the 10th arrondissement's rich stew of African and Asian ethnicity. His novel tries "to look at Paris in a different way," he says, "through the eyes of immigrants who live there but seldom come in contact with white French natives...
Wrenching decisions are what Pixarians have to make, just as the exigencies of the market are what they try to ignore. The title, for one thing: it's pronounced rat-a-tooey and refers to a Mediterranean vegetable stew, which not everyone will know or, knowing, will care about. And then ... well ... rats. They are typically figures of fear and loathing, and the Bird team hasn't prettied them up. Though Remy's coat has a lovely bluish sheen, and he often walks on his two hind paws, he is recognizably a rat, much closer to his species than...
...madhouse as ever housed a football team, English, European, South or North American for that matter. A half hour before kickoff the Kop was in full red-hued cry, singing, chanting, clapping. "We are not English we are Scouse," proclaimed one banner, referring to a local stew that doubles as the nickname by which the city ' s residents are collectively known. When the game began, so did the crescendo, one that would not let up, that would not let the 3,000 or so Chelsea fans who had traveled to Merseyside have much of a say in the matter. There...