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...basically moonshine, only stronger and not quite as tasty. And at those dinners, sometimes what they have to eat is ... well, no doubt lots of fun for their bemused Chinese hosts. "There was one dish that looked like a bowl of ribbon pasta [but] it was crunchy and almost tasteless. I asked what it was, and the Mayor [of a city in northeastern China] said, a 'Shandong specialty: steamed rabbit ears!'" Most westerners would say "Check, please" and head on home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. China Hits the Road | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

Isn’t that a little—what’s the word?—tasteless? Not according to Singh...

Author: By A. HAVEN Thompson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Spring at the Ex: Torture Onstage | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

...There was a lot of pretty tasteless stuff that went on then. There’s a lot of pretty tasteless stuff that goes on in the early 2000s,” Bethell said. “I’m afraid it’s not a great tribute to the younger generation of those years. Some of them were taken by Hitler, which they shouldn’t have been.”While Harvard hosted Putzi for the week, his attempt to leave a longer-lasting legacy was blocked. Months after the reunion, Conant rejected...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nazi In Our Midst | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

...covered a bunch of male artists' songs from a female perspective. Did you ever hear from any of them? Slayer sent T shirts to the crew. They said something completely and totally tasteless, and that's why we love them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Tori Amos | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

Other businesses are facing similar conundrums. Several seafood restaurants around the country find themselves saddled with a name that once sounded chic but now seems tasteless. At the Tsunami Restaurant in West Palm Beach, Fla., patrons used to ask what a tsunami was. Now managers fear potential diners will assume the restaurant was named for the disaster. But after two years of marketing the restaurant's name, the managers aren't eager to change it. Instead, they're sponsoring happy-hour fund raisers for UNICEF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tsunami By Any Other Name | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

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