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...also get a plate of prosciutto and some fried calamari. Each is ten or twelve dollars. Yes, anyone could make some version of these, just as anyone could throw eggs in a frying pan. But it takes a certain experience to know which tomatoes, from where, and how thick to cut them, and how much basil, and where do you get such incredible mozzarella, and what kind of olive oil. Too often, restaurants compensate for ignorance with complexity—trying to make up for a bad piece of chicken by piling the poor sucker with as many pretentious ingredients...
Neoprene leaves the factory as little chips in 50-lb. bags, but depending on the resins it's mixed with, it can be made thick or thin or can be "foamed" with tiny air bubbles. So the possible shapes and silhouettes are endless. Patricia Fields, stylist for TV's Sex and the City, thinks that like down, neoprene ultimately will be prized for its ability to insulate and will be used for shoes and leg warmers. Another advantage: sheets of neoprene don't have to be stitched together but can easily be glued with adhesives made from--you guessed...
...conceded that for some prospective employees, the preponderance of thick smoke could dissuade them from working...
...Revolution Reparations Committee stores (which stockpiled pieces confiscated by the Red Guards), as well as items donated by Party members and their families. Low-slung leather chairs in the cigar lounge were used by members of the Politburo; the green-shaded lamps came from the desks of ministers; a thick purple curtain in the reception area comes from Mao's house in the exclusive government compound of Zhongnanhai...
Frigid weather left a thick layer of ice over the river, and Harvard students and others have been sighted making the perilous crossing by ice skate, foot and bicycle...