Word: smorgasbord
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...Delhi. By offering a cheap, fast and accessible meal to millions of taxi drivers, electricians and office workers, Bhola Ram and his colleagues keep the capital's economy humming. They also entertain a steady stream of tourists and street food lovers for whom Delhi isn't Delhi without its smorgasbord of roadside treats that can be as irresistible as they are unhygienic. That may be why vendors have survived both the onslaught of McAloo burgers and other Western fast foods, and a Supreme Court order banning the cooking of food on the streets of Delhi...
...inception in the '70s, it was called the Festival of Festivals, and that name still applies: all kinds of genres, dozens of national cinemas, play to an equally diverse audience. Indeed, TIFF could split itself into eight or 10 different festivals, run throughout the year, instead of the one smorgasbord from which no one can get his or her fill...
...nostalgic evocations of a communal film experience that may vanish in the face of audience-segmenting multiplex cinemas and the continued development of home-entertainment technology. If the old-fashioned tradition of cinemagoing is to continue, in fact, it may be only in places like Cannes that the great smorgasbord of the movie world seems more appetizing, for one heady moment each year, than a bag of chips in front...
...most popular option is what we’re going to call the glacier—a combination of sapphire blue and the white cap,” DAPA Steven A. Strott ’07 said, referring to the smorgasbord of bottle and cap colors...
...resembles (the current wave of Stiller-Ferrell-Vaughn-Wilson-Wilson slob-buddy comedies) is that Wright is an actual filmmaker. His acute sense of visual wit, rich but not assaultive, puts me in mind of Buster Keaton's classic silent farces. To Wright, the movie screen offers a smorgasbord of small, savory gags to be sampled by the attentive viewer; it's not a grapefruit pushed in your face...