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7/29/05 Agence France Presse |
Gersende Rambourg reports from his live interviews that Chechen rebels eat mainly instant soups and canned food to stay alive.
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7/29/05 Bangor Daily News |
Toni-Lynn Robbins reports on a protest by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that featured a woman in lacy black underwear, her skin labeled with animal body part names, including "soup bone meat' on her legs.
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7/29/05 Japan Corporation News Network |
Aki Tsukioka reports on "Space Ram," Nissin's contribution to food in outer space: this ramen--in soy, miso, curry, and pork bone flavors--is made of extra viscous soup powder to be edible in weightless conditions.
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7/28/05 Daily Telegraph |
Tom Leonard reports on Zimbabwean Roy Bennett, local folk hero sent to jail by Mugabe for 8-months hard labor for pushing a fellow Member of Parliament. His prison diet? Three cups of gruel and vegetable soup a day.
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7/28/05 USA Today |
Greg Toppo reports on J. T. Petty's hobgoblin, in Clemency Pogue: Fairy Killer, who says when his identity is revealed, "I'll be a laughingstock. Add some potatoes, I'll be a laughing soup."
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7/26/05 Agence France Presse |
During the Moscow reunion of the 1975 U.S.-Soviet space mission, the "Russian vodka can incident" was recalled: Soviets had offered these labeled cans to U.S. astronauts saying, "It is a Russian tradition--we should drink before eating." When they opened the cans, however, they found them filled with beet soup."
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7/4/05 New Statesman |
Christopher Bracy discusses Russian director Lev Kuleshov who set out to prove that editing, not acting was the soul of film in a short film that spliced objects--a child at play, a woman's corpse, and a bowl of soup--with an actor's face reacting to them. Audiences agreed taht the actor was happy looking at the child; sad, at the corpse; and hungry at the soup. In fact, the actor's expression never changed in all three--the audience was simply projecting.
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7/4/05 Newsweek |
Sean Smith reports on the new Johnny Depp film Willie Wonka, about Charlie Bucket from a family so poor it lived on cabbage soup.
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