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...nearly a third of the industry's yield. My mother's side of the family is even in the sake business. Still, until recently, I never cared much for the stuff. Its strong smell, fiery aftertaste and old-fashioned image seemed about as alluring as my grandfather's hair tonic...
...exaggerated, often funny right-wing-talk-radio tradition. I wonder why the Left must always be modulated, so sweetly whisperingly NPR, when the Right has made its voice heard by shouting. And if you didn't care for Moore's hectoring as political discourse, think of it as a tonic or toxic dose of Reality TV. Tonight on "Fear Factor": contestants vie to endure a Michael Moore diatribe for five enervating minutes...
...Often these teamings make more sense as marketing ploys. As movies, they tend to be a tired jumble of stereotyped humor and steroidal fight scenes. At least there's something tonic about the films Li has made in the West. His character is so solid, so stolid that cross-cultural jokes fizzle around him; producers have stopped trying to turn him into a smiling Jackie type. And since his mission is not to learn American ways but just to catch the damn villain, a Li movie can get down to basics: punch, kick, pummel, kill...
...college bar. Basically it’s the Quincy Grille, if you could get a pint of Guinness or a vodka tonic with the chicken fingers. It’s the social space that everyone at Harvard dreams of. There aren’t any elite social gatekeepers—everyone in the college seems to feel comfortable there—and it’s got foosball, a pool table and darts. There are also different theme nights which are dubbed “bops.” Basically, it’s a dance where they...
...unprecedented nerd-drunkenness on display. “Have these geeks never actually been in a bar before?” he asked as John R. Quentin ’03 vomited into a urinal and Gertrude R. Cartwright ’03 ordered “rum and tonic on a rock”…The desperation of senior girls is becoming almost tangible. Lisa K. Cho ’03 got engaged Friday night to a Hong Kong bouncer known only as “Tank”…A piss-drunk Jackson...