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...51ST SUMMER FANCY Food Show in New York City last week showcased more than 100,000 specialty foods and beverages from gourmands around the world. Now all they have to do is get people to eat the stuff. A few of the wackier delicacies. --By Lisa McLaughlin...
...point where we’re not sure whether this is Notting Hill, Love Actually, or just some hideous amalgam of all the other resolutely WASPy, sickly-sweet Richard Curtis creations: There’s the wacky car chase through central London to a Motown soundtrack. The even wackier minor characters that swear like sailors and smoke like particularly industrious chimneys. Bridget falling flat on her face, a lot. Further plundering of the Aretha Franklin catalog. And, of course, that stalwart of the rom-com genre, Hugh Grant, walking on eggshells and flopping his fringe on the way into cinematic...
...wackier moments--racking our brains about how to force ourselves to learn these great new companies, with market capitalizations already north of $10 billion--we resorted to a Rotisserie League of our own, a stock Rotisserie League. In our league, which focuses on companies that help other companies mine the Internet (called business-to-business), we draft and play real-live stocks with a mythical million-dollar pool...
Walking into the 13-year-old movie studio--crammed into a nondescript office complex outside San Francisco--is like entering a Fellini film, with wacky characters and even wackier settings: circus-striped umbrellas, fake mustache collections, kitschy dolls, TV memorabilia...
...wackier the better," Myra Mayman laughs, as she describes the types of creative endeavors that received grants this year from the Harvard Council on the Arts. Mayman, director of the Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe (OFA), is one of 10 members of the standing committee that plans to dispense over $20,000, in grants ranging from $50 to $1,000, to various creative and innovative student projects this year. This fall the council has awarded a total of $7,295 in support of 21 "wacky" under graduate art projects. The remainder of the $20,000 will...