Word: tang
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...quit her job five years later to move to New York City, where she met Chris Rock, who hired her as a writer for his HBO show. She got her performing break when fellow writer (and star, as a nonsense-spewing rapper, of the movie Pootie Tang) Lance Crouther agreed to take her to a work party for HBO's Inside the NFL, even though he wasn't supposed to take a guest. Sykes, who was told to lie low, spent the entire time loudly mocking show host Bob Costas' inability to admit he doesn't know something...
Crouther says he realized Sykes' performing talents were greater than his (though, seriously, he was Pootie Tang) when they worked together as writers on Rock's show. "The first acting Wanda did was when she laid down on the street and pretended she got hit by a bus," he says. "It was like a shot to the brain. She was a great writer, and then she started performing...
...wasn't just fighting against a bad meal. She was fighting, in the 1950s, the entire post--Industrial Revolution naivete that believed technology was inherently good and would free us from our earthly constraints. She saved us from washing down powdered dinners with Tang. She rescued meat from the cannery and vegetables from the freezer. At great cost to herself, she refused to endorse any packaged food products. She wanted to show that simple, natural pleasures can be pretty great...
Hero is a reunion of sorts for the principals. Zhang Ziyi, Crouching Tiger's young star, is a Zhang Yimou discovery. Decades ago, Li and Yen trained together as teens in Beijing, which lends their rain-soaked battle the tang of an ancient schoolyard grudge match. Leung and Cheung, who smoldered so wistfully in Wong's In the Mood for Love, get to express the gamut of emotions as a couple who know each other's tricks. They are Rhett and Scarlett, Tristan and Isolde, and they end their time together in an image so startling and beautiful that...
...Rocks, the exploding candy that burst onto the market in 1975; in Stockton, Calif. During 35 years as a chemist for General Foods, he patented more than 70 inventions, including concoctions that led to the development of Cool Whip, quick-set Jell-O gelatin and the drink mix Tang. In the 1950s, while attempting to create an instant soft drink, he discovered Pop Rocks when he placed sugar flavoring mixed with carbon dioxide on his tongue...