Word: tonic
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...American, who has cooked for the likes of Cher, Madonna and Steven Spielberg, has been taken on as a consultant by Red White & Pure, redwhitepure.com, an innovative spa and restaurant in Singapore. His mission? To give a creative twist to an old-fashioned branch of Chinese cooking known as "tonic cuisine...
...does not yet have the craft to match or mediate his passion. His film works in spurts: a scene that sputters with bombast will be followed by some wrenching fire storm of death in combat. But nowadays, when directors aim for the predictably cute or gross, these spurts are tonic. They prove that someone out there, working from the mind and gut, is willing to put both aggressively onscreen. So Platoon is different. It matters...
...answer to that question may be nothing more than symbolic, but since all wars are fought as much with symbols as with steel, it's worth asking. When you're about to open up a can of hurt on somebody, there's a cleansing, tonic quality to declaring explicitly that those are your intentions. That's especially true when you were hit first - as the U.S. was on Sept. 11 or in December of 1941 - and the nation needs the lift of a good, bellicose roar. But there's more to it than that...
...tone of pastiche is even more obvious in the songs. Gould's farewell number, "Drift Away," recalls the elegiac mood of "Sail Away," the Noel Coward standard. "Will You?", the pretty ballad that closes the first act, takes its tonic cue from the 1936 Brown and Freed "Would You" that was introduced in San Francisco and reprised in Singin' in the Rain. The first few bars, and the whole mood, of Little Edie's lament "Daddy's Girl," are a direct lift from Sondheim's Follies song "In Buddy's Eyes." Little Edie's second-act fashion statement, "The Revolutionary...
...another antidote to the tawdry dance clubs that have been a mainstay of the capital's youth-oriented nightlife in recent years. But how will Beijing's new, sophisticated hostelries perform in a frugal city where it's still possible to knock back a stiff gin-and-tonic for a buck? Though Drake concedes that Face is "certainly a high-risk project," the initial response from the glitterati has been positive, and plans are afoot to add a Middle Eastern restaurant, as well as to convert the building's upper floors into a spa and boutique hotel. The new venues...