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Service was attentive yet unobtrusive. The manager, Dan, twinkled his eyes and told us to “have fun” as he brought us our dinner. While the food was a thread short of phenomenal, the upbeat atmosphere, the friendly demeanor of the wait staff, and novelty of the unusual cuisine combined together to make a fun and enjoyable evening. With the entrees priced below $20, Zuzu is a reasonably-priced venue for a stylish and fun night...
Laura Davis knows the pain of being estranged from a family member. She and her mother Temme grew apart after Davis confided that she had been sexually abused by her grandfather, Temme's father. "Some estrangements build like beads on a thread, one disappointment at a time," says Davis, 45. "That's how the relationship between my mother and me came unglued." But by the time Davis wrote I Thought We'd Never Speak Again: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation (HarperCollins), a series of interviews with people who have been alienated from their families, her relationship with Temme...
...really such bad news as Downing and his subjects sometimes intimate it is. If the insights made available by a spiritual institution are separate?and bigger?than the imperfect individuals who achieve and transmit them, that means they're still valid even after those individuals lose the thread and mess up. American Zen, that peculiar hybrid of Japanese and American sensibilities that was planted on California's shores in the '60s by Suzuki, Baker and others, may have been damaged by the scandals and embarrassments that Downing chronicles, but that's a far cry from saying it was done...
Some doctors are experimenting with ultrasound probes, which they thread through the arteries to try to locate this soft, vulnerable plaque. Others are looking at magnetic resonance imaging and other specialized scanning techniques that may highlight the presence of vulnerable plaque...
...afford, his daughter is dubious about (she has been having an affair with a slick TV host) and many of the guests and servants are distracted from as they pursue their own romantic interests. Though director Mira Nair and writer Sabrina Dhawan manage to pull a persuasively perverse thread through their canvas, their main line of business is frenzy. Anyone who has ever staged a big wedding on a tight budget will adore the many ways they work their central joke...