Word: tonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...South Korean food vendor, explaining his decision to continue to violate a government ban on selling dog meat for human consumption. Although some critics claim that many of the butchered dogs are stolen pets, speciality shops continue to sell dog meat soups, which are often advertised as "tonic soups" or "bow-wow soups." Superstition holds that these soups heighten male sexual prowess...
...cricket paddles. A new favorite of Jan's dad, who's very particular when it comes to comfort, is our hand-rubbed rhino-skin Royal Bengalese Club Chair. Sink into this overstuffed beauty, and try not to imagine yourself in the highest echelons of the Raj, ordering a vodka tonic or dispatching 1,000 Gurkhas to certain death in the Khyber Pass...
...that dispenses with the first album's period chat and cover versions of R.-and-B. songs to concentrate on alternate takes of songs from the band's musical prime time, from 1965 to early 1968. This is not just candy for Beatlemaniacs; it's a tonic for the soul. You want a solid couple of hours of superb pop music...
...tonic effect of Jon Blair's documentary Anne Frank Remembered is to restore the human scale to an immense atrocity. It chronicles the daily life of a family--the Frank family, hiding in Amsterdam from the Nazis--with a detail that never sensationalizes. It also gives a fresh perspective to the martyred teenager the world knows as Anne Frank...
...MOLIERE COMEDIES Hard to imagine a better actor of the great French dramatist's work than Brian Bedford or a better translator than Richard Wilbur. This Broadway revival was a tonic reminder of how compatibly elegance and buffoonery can be married...