If I want to serve a pissaladière as an amuse bouche, I'll do a pissaladière as an amuse bouche.
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These surreal, at times illusory images both shock and amuse.
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Here is a sampling, meant to both intrigue and amuse.
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The daring adventure will amuse both children and adults alike.
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"We were expected to amuse ourselves," her son James said.
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Malls are looking for new ways to entertain and amuse.
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If you're not the designated driver, you'll need to amuse yourself.
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Others amuse themselves playing table football or having elaborate spa treatments.
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I write them because they amuse me, and I enjoy them.
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He loved to cook, to please, to amuse and to astonish.
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They amuse themselves with post-practice games of one on one.
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"Pico, the English Grotesque Clown" will haunt or amuse your dreams.
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"The Tonight Show" basically is to amuse people, to make them laugh.
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To amuse themselves on the car ride, Alex and JoJo eat snacks.
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While this exotic fido festival might amuse some, others claim it's cruel.
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We just wanted to amuse ourselves and make something that didn't exist.
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I followed, leaving my son to amuse himself on a rusty tricycle.
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Kourtney and Khloé amuse themselves by calling everyone to discuss vagina colors.
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Exuberant, busy and sometimes funny, DreamWorks Animation's "Trolls" is determined to amuse.
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Uber driver Shahid, from Leatherhead, U.K., performed tricks to amuse a recent fare.
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She was a little treat to behold — an amuse-bouche, if you will.
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Audience members who are old enough can amuse themselves by guessing who's who.
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To amuse each other on their bus ride, the other men freestyle rap.
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That includes digital costumes in which teachers dress up to amuse their pupils.
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To that end, Farias tells me Amuse is opening an office in L.A.
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Written to amuse the Bourbon aristocracy, "Los Elementos" is now for everyone. ♦
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She can recount heartwarming stories about torture that will amuse Vlad the Impaler.
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"The turkey is really just an amuse-bouche for pies," Ms. McDowell said.
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To the Editor: Frank Bruni's column was an amuse-bouche for the soul.
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If Los Angeles is a confounding feast Santa Barbara is an amuse bouche.
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All of these titles clearly take artistic license to entertain and amuse their audience.
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"You have to work hard to amuse them or you get beaten," he says.
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So, if nothing else, watch this as an amuse bouche for his other movies.
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It didn't amuse cops -- at all -- and he was arrested right at the venue.
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A battle royale with a little bite-sized Rust amuse-bouche on the side.
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The plaque of amuse-bouches at Petrossian suggests candy, not a pre-dinner snack.
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A variety show where the actors amuse themselves at the expense of the audience.
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But it's largely through Snapchat and it's largely to amuse each other I think.
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I am, for the most part, just trying to amuse my partner or myself.
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We don't need other people to amuse us because we've found that in ourselves.
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Out of nowhere, a plate of amuse-bouches would appear, compliments of the house.
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Teenagers needed them to socialise, tired shoppers to wind down, children to amuse themselves.
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The idea is to occupy and amuse guests, while setting themselves apart from the competition.
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Boom: Your story now gets to annoy slightly amuse users on two huge social platforms.
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Or maybe if you beautify and amuse them enough, the users will keep coming back.
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Maybe we'll find a new Ken Bone character to amuse us for a couple days.
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Bernie's dank memes begin in the stash, and are shared to amuse or annoy outsiders.
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Opening the program is "The Helpers," an amuse-bouche by Cusi Cram ("A Lifetime Burning").
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The puppet artist Maiko Kikuchi presents the short, whimsical "Pink Bunny" as an amuse-bouche.
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Next to it - architects installed art to amuse commuters as they hurried over the river.
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This one should amuse fans of pop radio, absurd velocity, and the wonderful spirit of novelty.
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One mom just learned an unforgettable lesson about using your iPhone to amuse your little one.
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" Jenny Hagel: "They'll amuse everybody, but they don't quite work for the voice of the monologue.
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How new words are born Even though the newfound legitimacy of "bitchface" may amuse you, Dictionary.
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The amuse-bouche, a pate made out of sea lamprey with raw rhubarb, was quite tasty.
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Hélène made amuse-bouches: mushroom slices topped with Roquefort and apple, and a bit of mimolette.
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His "Sandbox" opens the evening as a perfect amuse-bouche for the heavier fare that follows.
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I love word play of all kinds and occasionally amuse myself by writing haiku and limericks.
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The meal began with an amuse-bouche that set the stage for the meals to come.
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It was an observation that might amuse a niche group of Twitter users and news junkies.
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"We just want to get them in our van and take them hostage and amuse ourselves."
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The Theater of Disappearance encourages discovery, which is why its greatest success, ultimately, is to amuse.
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And whatever he does next will confuse/impress/amuse us in ways we probably never expected.
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It's got a built-in camera, microphone and speaker and a laser pointer to amuse your pets.
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The Beano ultimately holds sway because it is funny; the characters exist to amuse, not to moralise.
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Three girls amuse each other with their masked costumes in the College Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati, 1929.
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All they have to do is build things that amuse people with the magic of visualized imagination.
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Comments are exchanged, with participants trying to guess the ingredients in Muriel's stuffing or Hélène's amuse-bouches.
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Most people need rest and something to amuse them, otherwise they wouldn't get up in the morning.
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It's a veritable master class in filmmaking, with much to interest and amuse anyone who loves movies.
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Several of these pieces will make you want to read them out loud to amuse someone else.
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White entertainers wore it to amuse white crowds by playing into the most offensive and dehumanizing stereotypes.
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In 1999, the scene was likely easy to read as just risqué enough to amuse, not offend.
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Others, however, are using (read: abusing) the car horns nonstop to amuse themselves and annoy or distract opponents.
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Much like the brand's Amuse Bouche collection, the colors are intense — in fact, intense doesn't even cover it.
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We have other options that amuse me more: CARDINAL NUMBER (14), BACON NUMBER (11) and CALL NUMBER (10).
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They have the power to alternately amuse, disrupt, and genuinely alter the way you see that original text.
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The internet found a new way to amuse itself in the final hours of the presidential election cycle.
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Whether it's your classic architecture or proximity to Central Park, you never cease to amaze and amuse us.
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The first thing was served as an amuse-bouche and was a play on edamame and soy sauce.
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He has products made overseas while — this will amuse you — railing against the loss of businesses in America.
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Will Total Metal Resource's steel cat amuse or unnerve people as they venture into my foyer after dark?
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If Biden wins, he will amuse, embarrass and probably alarm me with his gaffes, misstatements and memory lapses.
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Cheriyal masks, made from tamarind paste and sawdust, are used at festivals by actors to amuse the crowd.
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And passengers find ways to amuse themselves at sea, like observing the cruise ship's latest delivery of booze.
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Pictured is his signature amuse bouche, a burst of mango chutney in spherified yoghurt, served in flat-bottomed spoons.
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Ryon Edwards, 22, apparently came up with the idea to amuse himself during the storm, according to the BBC.
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A classic l'Arpège amuse bouche comes out first: a "chaud-froid," an egg with four spices and maple syrup.
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They should amuse and engage kids and serve as a pleasant pastime that can be enjoyed again and again.
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Amuse Bouche in particular is scented with orange oils to give the bullet a light and refreshing citrus smell.
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I was not overbored by this grid today, Mr. Trabucco, I feel you went quite overboard to amuse us.
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Hearts break, batteries fail, rain happens, animals appear, machines grind and people find the darnedest ways to amuse themselves.
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"Family comedy" might strike some as a contradiction in terms: Can you really amuse both children and grown-ups?
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White cockatoos are monogamous and pair up for life, and they can grow bored unless their human owners amuse them.
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A commentary on what Europeans did to native South Americans, it did not amuse a certain film festival in France.
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Starting now, Bite will roll out new lipstick shades in the popular Amuse Bouche formula based on your astrological sign.
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She doesn't respond to your attempts at conversation, your questions, your pathetic efforts to amuse her, to cheer her up.
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When I visited her, I would amuse myself by rummaging through her house and asking about the things I found.
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Unlike industrial or service robots, these creatures are meant to amuse, console, and fill in as surrogate therapists and pets.
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Since visiting Bite's factory, I've given the whole Amuse Bouche line a try and can personally attest to its quality.
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They were all closeup macro shots of amuse-bouches, so you don't understand which part of the body you're seeing.
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And the cast has been shrunk to a select 10, who occasionally amuse themselves by flirting with the front row.
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HNA probably paid less than $200 million, making it little more than an amuse-bouche for the deal-hungry company.
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It appeared as if he were doing it just to challenge and amuse himself, to make a lopsided series interesting.
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S. takes some artsy shots while I amuse myself by trying to climb up the smaller boulders that surround the area.
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The soup was $10, which included not just an amuse-bouche, bread and sparkling water, but also (gasp) tax and service.
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While we wait for answers on these questions, we can amuse ourselves with some of the details revealed in the disclosure.
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The frantic struggle to make this ridiculous robot's mouth move doesn't amuse me or pull some warm recognition out of me.
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The frantic struggle to make this ridiculous robot's mouth move doesn't amuse me or pull some warm recognition out of me.
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For a few days, we could amuse ourselves with the idea that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump would debate each other.
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"I offered him two pricing options as though I were negotiating with any other client, purely to amuse myself," she said.
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The pricey amuse bouche isn't just great for hors d'oeuvres: according to the brand, caviar packs major skin-care benefits, too.
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Throughout the day, he sent me text updates, including a goofy selfie intended to amuse our daughter, then 3 years old.
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With that in mind, they've made all of their ingredients in their latest Amuse Bouche lipstick collection natural enough to eat.
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The four members of Asperger's Are Us decided a long time ago that their main goal would be to amuse themselves.
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He crawled around on all fours, pretending to be a pony, to amuse his daughter, Jacey, and her younger brother, Liam.
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Consider this post an amuse-bouche — a few images to whet your appetite for the bigger meal over at Carbon Brief.
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Presidential transitions have always been the healthy protein between the amuse bouche of the campaign and decadent dessert of inaugural festivities.
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" I stopped reading, as it was too frightening, though one final quote did amuse: "His hands were nervous, delicate, almost feminine.
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Serve them as a first course, an amuse-bouche, a snack: tube-steak oysters, before whatever else you're going to cook.
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They are practicing the story as something they will tell when they return north, to amuse the people they know there.
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Vibrant is working on a full-decarbonization study for Colorado; this bit of modeling is an amuse-bouche, if you will.
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"I wrote this to amuse myself," Ms. Wallace, surprised by her success, told The Boston Globe when the book was released.
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Their acts required enormous amounts of concentration and agility, but unlike the ballets of Three Dances, these seemed designed to amuse.
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I was really missing my friends and family, so every evening I picked a new victim to amuse me via FaceTime.
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If you're a fan of the audio incarnation — a bit of an acquired taste — the version with pictures will surely amuse.
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But Magnises was only the amuse-bouche to Fyre Festival's now-infamous bread and cheese sandwich thrown haphazardly in a styrofoam box.
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And the conversations that we have with them will serve to highlight, educate, elucidate, (hopefully) scandalize, and definitely amuse you. There. Will.
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"From the amuse bouches to the final petits fours, every single dish will create a big smile on your face," the wbpstars.
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The limited-production pods are being served as an amuse-bouche during London's celebration of cocktail innovations, which run through October 13.
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The IEEE unearthed a fascinating 2013 study that showed that a cute dog tail does more than just amuse — it can communicate.
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So when Bite revealed that it was transforming its best-selling Amuse Bouche Lipstick into a liquid formula, there was immediate excitement.
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Thankfully, unique gift emporium UncommonGoods is here with these and more surprising offerings sure to amuse and delight everyone on your list.
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It also started to run community programs — sending vaudeville acts to nursing homes and clowns to hospitals to amuse very sick children.
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What all great tech toys have in common is the ability to amuse and inform a young mind at the same time.
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Whether you're looking to amuse yourself or surprise a friend with a seriously unexpected gift, here are our top four finds — enjoy!
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I have 13-year-olds who come up to me, telling me that they had an amuse-bouche party at their sleepover.
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Bite Beauty, a brand that boasts a slew of pigmented, buttery, food-grade lipsticks, has just launched a line called Amuse Bouche.
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On a recent dinner date, the server presented us with an amuse-bouche of caviar atop a buttermilk crema-stuffed doughnut blini.
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Like all good rom-com novels, Leah Stewart's "What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw" starts with an amuse-bouche of misery.
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It also offers an opportunity to make chocolate chips into a happy face, should you want to amuse those sweet-toothed adults.
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" This did not amuse the Yankee first baseman Mark Teixeira, who tweeted, "@AlFranken let me know 'He is more important than me.
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On Twitter, the comedian John Roy recalled an industry show in which a number of comics performed for hard-to-amuse agents.
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There's a nice scene in the movie "Ice Age," in which a saber-toothed tiger is trying to amuse a human infant.
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Though the conversations she overhears on her walks amuse and compel her, she is not interested in constructing stories out of them.
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"I have never seen Chicago shut down to the extent that NYC had in this past storm," Amuse tells The Creators Project.
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Bored children in a wintry town begin an epic snowball fight to amuse themselves during vacation, and soon things get out of hand.
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And others feel Fallon's choice to amuse and entertain is humanizing a candidate whose opinions have been decried as sexist, racist and xenophobic.
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I definitely like using Jell-O shots to mark an occasion or an event, like serving them as an amuse bouche at dinner.
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Amuse, the Swedish startup that offers a free distribution service for artists wanting to get their music on Spotify, Apple Music et al.
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There are 18 in-app activities for them to explore, assuming kids don't just use amuse themselves acting out their Marvel superhero fantasies
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So when Trump boffs something on Twitter, that may amuse some observers, but it can't tell us, in isolation, anything about the him.
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Now, I'm not messing around with inside jokes to amuse myself, I'm there for the fans and to deliver those songs with sincerity.
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That's been further compounded by Melissa McCarthy's blistering impression of Spicer on SNL last weekend, which did not amuse the president at all.
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Bite Beauty Lip Pencils are creamy, comfortable, and vibrant enough to wear alone or pair with the brand's top-selling Amuse Bouche Lipsticks.
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"He seemed to be making a series of these ridiculous figures laughing or ranting and raving, maybe to amuse himself," Professor Kwakkelstein said.
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"A taradiddle is by definition a petty lie, a little falsehood or trifling told often to amuse or embellish a story," he said.
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And his jokes are structured deftly, building on one another in service of arguments that are meant to unsettle as well as amuse.
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The oysters and pearls amuse bouche (pearl tapioca with beau soleil oysters and white sturgeon caviar) is famous and frequently on the menu.
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One of those clips followed Chicago's Amuse 126 who, along with Merlot, put in some heavy work during the height of the storm.
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Agdal showed off her enviable figure in a black and white Amuse Society bikini, while the actor donned a pair of blue swim trunks.
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From cosplay contests to droid-building workshops to a "Whose Line Is It Alderaan" improv game, there's no shortage of events to amuse you.
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Lear had been hired to paint an aristocrat's private menagerie and he came up with his poems to amuse the children in the household.
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He wrote them to amuse his godchildren, but by now they have slunk their way through the lives of countless children and adults alike.
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A traditional Niçois dish, the pissaladière, is served as an amuse bouche: a warm slice of Mediterranean sun on a typically gray Parisian day.
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Maybe you discovered a new favorite restaurant, learned to pronounce "amuse-bouche" correctly, found out that orange wine is not actually made with oranges.
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Sondheim is 89, and his walk that day was slow and pained, but he retains a boyishness — a willingness to amuse and be amused.
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But I take all the blame for my initial set of theme answers, some of which did not amuse as much as I'd hoped.
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It's not that hard to see why Cats, an unabashed popular sensation in 1982, might confound and ironically amuse audiences nearly four decades later.
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Girls talk about the characteristics of their beer and amuse the pub guest by handing out promotional items like bottle openers and beer bracelets.
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To us they seem a modern phenomenon, but for centuries, the rich and powerful have been building automata to amuse themselves and awe the masses.
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It's kind of like a nineteenth century British novel: everyone goes out to the country house and decides to write a play to amuse themselves.
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The death tribute cartoon is different from simple tribute art, in that it uses a visual format designed to amuse, but to be maudlin instead.
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If a LinkedIn profile is the amuse-bouche for recruiters or hiring managers in search of the right talent, a personal website is the entree.
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To amuse myself, when I get home I shake my boobs at my husband while he's on the phone and cackle when it distracts him.
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And if that isn't enough to amuse you, imagine doing that while video game Elvis is dressed in one of his signature Karate King jumpsuits.
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As swearing functions as a complex signal, subtle enough either to amuse or to offend, these words vary according to what a culture deems unmentionable.
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This consists of a 50/50 split of streaming and download revenue and means artists have access to what Amuse claims is large-scale promotion.
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Voltaire is in the House, as the art of politics will be to amuse each base while the disease cures itself in the 2020 election.
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Easy and fun, her puzzles, solo and collaborative, are often like an amuse-bouche for the rest of the week, and they make me smile.
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Pigs can be strong swimmers, as they demonstrate in diving displays that some Chinese pig farms use to improve the animals' flesh and amuse visitors.
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"We are at the hands of the different music services to a large extent," Diego Farias, CEO of Amuse, an Italian-based distributor told me.
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The Easter eggs in these cars are hidden throwbacks and nods that, for whatever reason, automotive designers felt compelled to include to amuse future customers.
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The obvious choice is appetizer, or even amuse-bouche, given that the show's first season on Starz (beginning Sunday) is just six half-hour episodes.
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New York (Reuters) - Erik Hagen bought an interactive camera that dispenses treats to amuse his pets, but he is the one who has become addicted.
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Amuse-bouche—I feel like I've eaten it at Per Se and it's on the 30 plates with the gold cup and the gold spoon.
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YouTube commentator Punie Tanaka suggested that even though people nowadays consider Kabuki as a formal, highbrow art, in reality, it had been created to amuse people.
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The volunteers could study, work on their computers, talk on the phone or otherwise amuse themselves but, for those three hours, were not allowed to rise.
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Both disciplines use clothing to startle and amuse, and both understand its ability to undermine expectations; they exploit that to demand a reassessment of the everyday.
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Honestly, we could amuse ourselves for hours — Okay, maybe for a minute or two while waiting in line for coffee — searching for our favorite celebrity doppelgängers.
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To amuse himself while tracking Earl and managing his methheads, Angus maintains a revoltingly abusive, possibly incestuous relationship with his deeply damaged sister, Delia (Margaret Qualley).
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Everything seems so overwhelming that we just sort of amuse ourselves by imagining the end of the world and entertaining ourselves with the thought of it.
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Mr. Elliott told Whitney Balliett of The New Yorker in 1982 that the two hit it off and began to ad-lib between records to amuse themselves.
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You use the app to make the ball move around to amuse your dog, and and you can prompt it to dispense a treat to your pet.
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This new invasion of modernity into the show's fantasy realm will surely amuse as much as it bemuses, and it's already got Twitter's meme brigade creating jokes.
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In the decade or two before Mr Xi took over, people were given wider leeway to amuse themselves as they wished as long as they avoided politics.
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Scenes of a kid barely into his teens trying to amuse himself in his parent's basement clash perfectly against scenes of the band rocking out as adults.
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Each pot—such as this one, featuring oxtail, turnips, Korean chives, and roasted garlic—is preceded by a three-part amuse-bouche course served in tiny ramekins.
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She finds volunteers to make music, improvise dance, sail, move into their apartments, run wild in an Italian city, or amuse themselves in a staged traffic jam.
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Ms. Neugebauer's excitable decisiveness seems to slightly amuse the others — it may not be a coincidence that she is the only native New Yorker in the group.
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After reluctantly dealing with the amuse, my fellow diners and I were led to a nine-foot-long trough, which Volf had meticulously designed for the night.
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An amuse bouche of smoked pork-rind chips with loyrom (vendace roe) and sour cream previewed Mr. Myhre's palate, which is at once sophisticated and proudly Norwegian.
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It also means that if you follow the entertainment juggernaut that the ready-to-wear shows have become, there soon won't be any #Wangfest to amuse you.
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John Mulaney & Awkwafina Did Not Amuse Spike Lee The pair introduced the star-studded category, Best Animated Short Film, and reminded us why we love them so much.
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But I'm interested in whether the Waif will turn out to be just an amuse bouche at the start of a 17-course tasting menu of Arya's Revenge.
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Typically the other kids would go into the so-called large muscle room, where they would amuse themselves by climbing or throwing a ball or using the slide.
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Not every business is a fit for Pokémon Go. Playing Pokémon Go might even enhance the Jamba Juice experience by enabling customers to amuse themselves during the wait.
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We're guessing it's a fair amount, as Google's myriad services and products hold an impressive amount of hidden treasures which don't serve any other purpose except to amuse.
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Namely, Amuse uses the data that it has access to via users of its music distribution service to analyze music consumption and listening habits to identify "rising talent".
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Everything's fake news, if you will, or really just designed as a giant video game to amuse what would have to be the brainiest teenagers who ever lived.
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I started to use the spoon to amuse myself, take sugar I didn't want, and each time I watched him wash it and return it to my saucer.
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Ron's an idiot, he's gross, he's an amuse-douche, but his dolls, like the gun on the wall in a Chekhov play, are never far from anyone's mind.
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"I made this painting to amuse the sick children in this hospital, now and in the future," the American artist Keith Haring wrote in his diary in 1987.
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The rapist's girlfriend could begin with an amuse-bouche of the rapist's Adam's apple, devouring it in one gulp as if it were a cut of tuna sashimi.
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Most of the selections are by Mozart, a heaping helping of his violin sonatas, but there are also amuse bouches by Ravel, Adams, Handel, Stravinsky, Webern and Schubert.
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The Outline just wrote about Netflix's recent pivot towards horniness on the platform which, depending on how much of Her you finished watching, will either amuse or terrify you.
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AARP Studios has released an amuse-bouche for Dinner With Don, one of the final screen projects of the venerable comedian Don Rickles, who died Thursday at age 90.
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Robert's fun fact that ostrich legs can "easily kill a lion" did not amuse Hart either — he stared at the camera with a petrified look as the audience roared.
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"Dun" started as an inside joke they used to amuse one another and their circle of friends, but it sprawled out into syntaxes all over the rap-listening country.
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To amuse his friends and family, the new father, 36, put on a gas mask and asked his wife, Carli, to snap a pic and post it on Instagram.
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The Dubsmash videos he made with his infant son, Jack, were intended to amuse and reassure his wife that everything was O.K. at home while she was at work.
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Meanwhile Russia continues to amuse itself with a spot of public Twitter trolling of the UK PM… The Russian Foreign Ministry's official Twitter account is trolling our prime minister.
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If Mr. Norris aims to amuse us by satirizing the personalities of these pedophiles, he is not the kind of the playwright to let us bask in our smugness.
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But now that anything goes, now that we've seen it all, now that we have PornHub to amuse us on demand, is there anything left to get excited about?
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Before college, we'd spend way too much time together taking and editing photographs of one another to post on Instagram and Snapchat, concocting accompanying captions to amuse our followers.
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But to present it as an amuse-bouche at one of the most acclaimed fine-dining restaurants in the United States, to a predominantly non-Asian clientele, is radical.
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Federal prisons employ civilians who pay for their own food and health care, drive their own cars, live in their own homes and amuse themselves on their days off.
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Some of the "Hopper Hotel Experience" packages consist of dinner at VMFA's fine dining restaurant Amuse, a guided tour by the curator and an exhibition catalogue, among other options.
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I hope it will not only amuse and challenge readers, but help to promote an open discussion of mental health problems, which can affect anyone, regardless of age or background.
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If you too got sucked into the story, you probably remember how disappointing it was to find out a few days later that the man embellished to amuse his followers.
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While you're in there, you can of course amuse yourself by looking through the medicine cupboards, because nothing is as entertaining as learning one of your friends has topical eczema.
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You should be doing adult things, and here you are buying a toy with no function other than to idly amuse someone with 20 years' less emotional development than you.
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And while Play-Doh itself holds up as the engaging and fun toy it's been for decades, the Play-Doh Touch app fails to amuse after only a few minutes.
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As a public speaker, Ali was able to both amuse and inspire, whether in delivering a pointed political critique, or using wit and charm to telegraph his brash self-confidence.
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Meat broth of outrageous depth served as amuse-bouche, tartare of veal dressed like tonnato, salt-roasted branzino, and cookies for sampling set near the door are some other temptations.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: I was on my way home on the M86 with my exhausted 2-year-old after an all-day street fair, trying unsuccessfully to amuse her.
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Some people might consider that to be just another constructor's trick, but if you notice it when you first start solving, it's almost like an amuse-bouche for the puzzle.
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Bagge's graphics still have the power to amuse, and they demonstrate his obvious mastery of the bones of the medium, directing the eye within and between panels with great skill.
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The artwork and medical procedure were done by Dr. Robert Parry, a self-taught artist who creates original illustrations on bandages to amuse patients and relive tension after their procedures.
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Maybe some are as close as the younger two or as distant as the elder two, but we almost all love, hate, amuse, encourage, discourage, disappoint, admire, and tolerate each other.
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Piled up against the walls, some of the spectators closest to the pit amuse themselves by blowing on the rats to scatter them around the ring while Butcher is brought upstairs.
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The menu, which will be brought to life by a kitchen staff of 200, includes amuse-bouche, hors d'oeuvres, both hot and cold small plates, and items from a raw bar.
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But first there's an amuse bouche, along with homemade croissants and popovers — the poblano gruyère ones we sampled were fresh and chewy, and well matched with butter, honey and lavender salt.
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Juan Bak, the owner and the self-proclaimed 'King of Chinchulines', greets me with a small amuse-bouche of grilled intestines doused with chimichurri between two rounds of toasted French bread.
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It made me a good observer of other people and a lover of movies and comic books and video games, which were all things I could do alone to amuse myself.
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It was Pride day, so many people had come out to see this show as an amuse-bouche to cheering on a squadron of topless men in PVC dog bondage masks.
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Cole points out that the economy will not always look so buoyant, and that the XIV-triggered vol-mageddon was therefore just "an amuse-bouche" for what the future might hold.
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His name is Amuse Bouche ("Bouche" or "Boo" for short), and we're glad to see he's keeping that feeling of Winter Olympic glory alive in South London — and on social media.
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They're second to none when it comes to entertainment gentle enough to amuse the kiddies and smart enough to impress the grown-ups, and Ralph Breaks the Internet is no exception.
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Was it an amuse-bouche prepared by one of the 17 chefs who donated their skills to the fund-raiser, which this year benefited culinary programs related to International Women's Day?
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Mr. Esparza, a performer of wit and fire, doesn't fail to amuse in the role and — when his character roams the audience with the dead eyes of a shark — to chill.
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Even if I will never own the Dior shirt that took seven embroiderers 2,600 hours to create, I can amuse myself imagining it on a fashion-conscious baller like King James.
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Fefu's restlessness and loose tongue—she claims not to like other women—scandalize the mousy Christina (Juliana Canfield) and amuse Cindy (Jennifer Lim), a cooler customer who's used to Fefu's shtick.
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I've loved comics since I was small and always drew silly cartoons to amuse friends, but I thought that to make a living I'd need to be a graphic designer or something.
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With the smell of stale champagne and cologne wafting through the galleries, it's extremely hard to digest this deluge of genitalia as anything more than a fetishistic amuse-bouche for the crowds.
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We get the six-course tasting menu (which ends up working out to more like 22 courses with all the little amuse-bouches they bring) plus wine and have a fantastic time.
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The point of an A-hed, I had gathered from afar, was to gently amuse the Journal's audience with a story about some harmlessly misguided attempt to resist the march of capitalism.
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The performance was clearly designed to provoke—riffing on the c-word and revelling in the discomfort generated by such a frank discussion—but it was also designed to amuse and move.
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Shop the Bite Beauty Amuse Bouche Lipstick, $15.60Get high pigmentation, soft texture, and moisturizing feel without harmful chemicals and unnecessary ingredients in this popular lipstick, available in a variety of beautiful colors.
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Each time, she has surprised people, mainly by showing that what many saw as genuine haughty grumpiness is actually a carefully crafted shtick, designed both to protect and amuse nobody but herself.
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The project starts with the décor — slim tree trunks stretch from floor to ceiling, like an indoor forest — and continues with a four-course menu (1,590 baht) and various amuse-bouche whims.
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Anyway, somebody-or-other's toast sits under the smoked gravlax, red with beet juice and very silky on its bed of coconut crème fraîche, that Mr. DiSpirito sends out as an amuse.
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The recommendation itself should be attractively unexpected — "sideways," as editors are perhaps too fond of saying — but really, it's just an excuse to cut brilliant writers loose to amuse or inspire us.
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Brady (Garrett Clayton) and Sam (Gregg Sulkin), his best friend, are among a group of youths who amuse themselves by making prank calls, which they record and post online, with viral results.
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The occasion seemed to provide a balm to residents of a city of royal palms and a reminder to step away from the drama of politics to let art uplift and amuse.
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Some of it is familiar and satisfyingly funny, even if there are laughs and bits that seem as if they were written to amuse only the Coens and the Turner Classic Movies crowd.
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Whenever Seuss was asked how he could write for children when he didn't have any of his own, his go-to response was "You make them, I'll amuse them," according to biographer Nel.
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" "She is a gifted comedienne whose humor is instinctive and whose power to amuse comes from exquisite timing, a flair for the outrageous, and -- I trust she'll forgive me for saying so -- balls.
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And now the network has finally revealed during the Grammys just who was crazy brave enough to lock themselves in a house for two-and-a-half-weeks to amuse and entertain us.
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TMZ Sports spoke with John Schwartz -- the owner of the Amuse Bouche Winery in Napa Valley -- who tells us the special 5 liter Jerobaum bottle of 2012 cabernet was specially made for #24.
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For July, the blog disclosed that bottled water, pretzels, cheese and biscuits will also be removed from Economy cabins, while amuse-bouche will be taken off the menu in First class (quelle horreur!).
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Our meal began with an amuse-bouche of little bites served on a mirrored plate — quarter-size crispy haggis balls, a deliciously simple roll of smoked salmon and a perfectly executed fried oyster.
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It's a small but illuminating window into the darker side of celebrity -- the nagging doubts and internal turmoil experienced by so many of the people whose job is to amuse and entertainment us.
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Exemplary of that combination of profiles was the amuse-bouche, Berrebi said: a morsel of drum fish ensconced in a potato cream foam with a crimson oil imbued with a faint paprika heat.
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In the rooms we've set up for her, though, there's plenty of space for her to walk, crawl, pull herself up, and generally amuse herself, even while my immediate attention is occupied elsewhere.
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They know how to hold an audience's attention and with a mix of humor, derision and venom, they are able to frighten citizens or amuse them — or do both at the same time.
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Such internal divisions probably amuse Mr. Putin, who saw Russia "suspended" from what was the G-8 after the annexation of Crimea, but who now sees a far more welcoming landscape in Europe.
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Ours began with a selection of amuse-bouches: bell pepper cream with feta cheese over a bed of black caviar, a clam served in the shell topped with a smoked lard emulsion foam.
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Cusick, however, makes clear that the loud-music tactic displays a chilling degree of casual sadism: the choice of songs seems designed to amuse the captors as much as to nauseate the captives.
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There are those who consider it the sports fan equivalent of committing genocide, while the very chill other contingent simply sees it as a silly thing for sports fans to do to amuse themselves.
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Amuse also provides a dashboard displaying and helping to make sense of data relating to how well your tracks are performing on the streaming apps and download stores you have chosen to distribute on.
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Next came a little something unexpected: a small circle of warm naan stuffed with blue cheese as an amuse-bouche, a delicious union of soft, lightly smoky South Asian bread and pungent European funk.
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The red kelp crab's meat is crumblier than its commercially fished counterparts, and the relatively flimsy muscle structure lends itself more to a loose salad dish than a small, precisely composed amuse, Cimarusti says.
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At the two Michelin-starred Seta, for example, a three-course lunch with an amuse bouche and petits fours is 25 euros (about $27), compared with 21 euros for a similar meal at dinner.
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Like all serious artists, he writes primarily to amuse and please himself, knowing far better than his non-admirers his real "letters," and bringing to them the homage of profound knowledge and creative imitation.
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It does amuse me now, watching New Order play in their sixties and thinking how in our thirties, we didn't want to play [in our] forties, we didn't want to play [in our] fifties.
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That points to traits so crucial for her endurance in the Darwinian struggle for literary immortality: acute emotional intelligence, and a rare ability to render it in stories that amuse even as they instruct.
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It helped lull us into a false sense of security, that we could treat an election like a show; that everything on TV is entertainment and everyone on my screen is there to amuse.
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The sliced eyeball in Un Chien Andalou, the copious shit in River of Fundament, the corporeal mutilation of the entire torture-porn genre: it's all an amuse-bouche for the final course that is Kuso.
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My father told me to take my 4-year-old sister into my room down the hall to amuse her, play a game, do anything to pretend Mom wasn't OD'ing and needed to be revived.
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The account was intended as a personal thing—an inspiration board to amuse myself after I lost my job and was suddenly left with little to do but unpack my cardboard boxes and reinvent myself.
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After completing successful projects like L.A.'s Hotel Covell and Cafe Birdie, Breer and Rodehuth-Harrison will launch their first table (what Breer calls "the amuse bouche" of a larger collection) at this year's Offsite.
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Formed in 2009, the band has already dredged up a demo and one EP, but even those well-recieved releases have felt like amuse-bouches, teasing fans' appetites while building up to the main event.
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The pair met in the punk-music scene in Zurich, in 1978, and proceeded to amuse and befuddle the international art world until 2012, when Weiss died, of cancer, at the age of sixty-five.
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A $150 check — a small amount even in 1990 — made out to the artist Mike Kelley and later returned in the mail may amuse some visitors given his later status as a blue-chip artist.
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Black Panther This smash hit which introduced us not only to T'Challa (Black Panther), but his genius scientist sister Shuri, was the amuse-bouche to Avengers: Infinity War, just like Captain Marvel is for Avengers: Endgame.
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"Amber's totally fine to amuse herself with a toy and enjoys bunny hopping around the house with her purple dinosaur in tow — it is ADORABLE," her bio reads (note her purple dino in the pic above!).
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We had a little amuse-bouche earlier this year, when she released the spring '17 riff on her sandals, as well as other styles we've been eyeing since they debuted on the Paris Fashion Week runway.
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MARCHING BANDS — The name of the game today alludes to the intricate maneuvers of a school's band as they entertain (or AMUSE) thousands of sports revelers, walking across as well as around and around a field.
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Our top pick, the Wobble Wag Giggle Ball, is an afA good dog toy will amuse your dog for a little while, but a great dog toy will keep them busy for hours at a time.
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They can often be found in great numbers at the bases of the trees' trunks, as well as along walking paths where they amuse or annoy dogs and their walkers, runners, picnickers and bike riders alike.
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Britain's flag carrier has been criticised for cutting legroom in economy, axeing free food and drink on short-haul flights and—horror of horror—the amuse bouche that used to be served before dinner in first class.
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" Widdess insists that her insatiable ambition to make incredibly complex work is simply a manifestation of her need to amuse herself, "in order to keep it challenging and interesting to myself I keep on pushing the medium.
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Throughout our conversation Farias was very keen to stress that he sees this as a partnership of equals, where the interests of scaling up the success and reach of an artist signed by Amuse are equally aligned.
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But melted cheese is melted cheese—you could basically slug a bottle of vodka into a fondue and it would still taste pretty OK. Now for my amuse-bouche foray, wherein the limitations of rosé became clearer.
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All this late-life eminence — which also includes the Spanish Prince of Asturias Award in 2012 and being named a commander in the Légion d'Honneur of France in 2013 — seems both to gratify and to amuse him.
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"I go into the nurseries, I kill the white babies, catch them quick and hang their parents, pull them apart to pass the time, amuse the black children off all ages, little and big," the rapper says.
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The tours are a small slice of what has grown into a multi-billion dollar holiday industry - ranging from food and drinks to costumes and entertainment - designed to excite and amuse adults as much as their children.
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But Mr. Debargue's recent release is one of the more sprawling helpings on record of Scarlatti's hundreds of lucid, elegant sonatas, which generally find themselves on recital programs as shapely amuse-bouches rather than the full meal.
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We decide to start with oysters three ways (raw, grilled, and breaded and cooked) but first we start with a little amuse bouche of a crostini with a little cream and tuna and what looks like shaved cheese.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - "The Circle," a movie adaptation of Dave Eggers' eponymous 2013 novel, tries to chill and amuse while telling the tale of a cultish internet company that wants to save the world by abolishing privacy.
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On the west side are two dining rooms where you will be subject to an amuse-bouche, and you may receive such lavish attention that you will stop drinking your water for fear of having it refilled again.
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On a recent evening, an amuse-bouche of beef brodo, scented with cinnamon and served in porcelain tureens the size of eggcups, was followed by durum-wheat focaccia so good I could have made a meal of it.
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If "Idiocracy" imagined that America would one day amuse itself into ruin, then "Silicon Valley" offers a compelling case for how we'll go about doing it — not in spite of our best and brightest, but because of them.
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There is no doubting the severity of this outbreak, but amid the fear of contagion and anger at the government's handling of the crisis, many residents are finding ways to amuse themselves within the confines of their homes.
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IMDb Movies and TV has the same detailed movie information as the famous IMDb website, so you can amuse yourself by browsing through movie trivia or details about an actor's life during the boring bits of the awards show.
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From Coinage: See Where 6 Stars Were Before They Were Famous "I told her I would have to amuse the children in London then so she suggested the Natural History Museum as a place to visit," Suzy tells PEOPLE.
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Cimarusti has used the red kelp crabs he received through Dock to Dish in an amuse-bouche at Providence: a small crab meat dish with makrut lime leaf mayonnaise that's wrapped in pickled daikon radish and garnished with chives.
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But starting on Tuesday, its creators will serve up two free weeks of arts events as an amuse-bouche, hoping to entice New Yorkers with an early look at the type of ambitious programming the Shed will eventually offer.
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It's enticingly off-kilter, and another frequent amuse manages to outdo it: a spoonful or so of white-asparagus foam above a warm custard of sunflower-seed butter, dense and nutty and sweet with a few drops of honey.
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It's enticingly off-kilter, and another frequent amuse manages to outdo it: a spoonful or so of white-asparagus foam above a warm custard of sunflower-seed butter, dense and nutty and sweet with a few drops of honey.
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When the whole country has heard the actual president boast about grabbing women by the crotch, listening to a fictional former president making penis jokes loses its shock value and at least a little of its ability to amuse.
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With executives from companies like Splice, Dubset, SoundCloud, Amuse, Amadeus Code, iZotope, and more, we'll be digging into everything from how artificial intelligence will impact music creators to how to be successful as an independent artist in the modern music landscape.
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With more than 100 puzzles and 1,200 objects to find, this nostalgic magazine is fun for the whole family, as it might challenge children, while at the same time amuse adults with its black-and-white style and meticulous design.
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Now, before the thought of spreading the beauty equivalent of a butter-drenched roll across your mouth triggers some sort of gag reflex, know that this is all part of the restaurant's 25-year anniversary celebration of its popular amuse-bouche.
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It began as a joke in 2005, designed mostly to amuse ourselves, but 11 years later it is still standing, providing space for diasporic, radical, and progressive Jews in the UK who do not feel catered for by the Jewish mainstream.
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Dharmash Mistry, General Partner at Lakestar, says that the Amuse team have "reimagined every step of the A&R process from inverting the commercial model to be artist-friendly and discovering new musicians to changing how individual songs are marketed".
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Its central conceit: 200 years after the French Revolution, the playwright Beaumarchais is summoned to amuse the bored ghosts of the aristocrats who hover about the palace of Versailles and to use his drama to court the ghost of Marie Antoinette.
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The Dreaming City is chock-full of secrets to uncover, high curse week or not, and is definitely worth a visit as an amuse-bouche to the type of level design you can expect to find on the Moon in Shadowkeep.
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Astute culture critics, Mr. Healy and Mr. Deb detect distinct strains of comedy: One, practiced by Mr. Colbert, Mr. Noah, Mr. Meyers and John Oliver, aims to educate as well as amuse viewers; the other is simply about making people laugh.
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" Or this: "But he was a gifted burglar, when he burgled — though the size of a young dinosaur, with a massive and almost perfectly square head he used to amuse his friends when drunk by letting them open and close elevator doors on.
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My wife and I opted for the latter and began with an amuse-bouche of tiny gougères embellished with buttons of pickled shallot gelée, and filled with a creamy, savory sauce of Navarrais (a sheep's milk cheese from the Pyrenees) and Comté.
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An alternative method of transporting food through space is in metallic pouches, which are more flexible than cans and allow for more interesting textures like lemon meringue pudding, salmon filets, and lasagne, which I was served as a kind of amuse-bouche.
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The friend who first posted pics of Keys to Imgur has since started an Instagram account in honor of "Goal Kitty," where fans can now grab her image and amuse themselves for hours embedding Keys into all manner of paws up-worthy scenarios.
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Mandatory evacuation orders were largely heeded by the 50,000 residents of Panama City Beach and Panama City, a pair of towns dotted with attractions designed like shipwrecks and volcanoes to amuse the thousands of tourists who flock there during the warm months.
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Luckily, it didn't take long to find a GIF that's basically an amuse bouche to the weekend, and it's here for your enjoyment before the time finally comes for you to pack up your bag, turn off your laptops, and hit the couch.
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The type of value-add that the Amuse team will bring will vary depending on artist and what they need most, but will include things like public relations, marketing, branding, and having a more direct line to the online distributors it partners with.
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The cinema of seduction doesn't get much more overheated than "A Bigger Splash," an Italian come-on that doesn't just want to amuse you, but also to pour you a Negroni before taking you for a midnight spin with the top down.
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Some of the essays in this volume resonate more than others — some feel more like amuse-bouches — but they all made me want to keep reading, to keep listening to the subtle quality of the author's voice: her irony, smarts, unexpected associations.
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There's more than a hint of the "holiday novella" — so popular in the romance genre — to "Elevation," and I imagine many fans would be satisfied if King settled into a late career of one heavy meal and one amuse bouche every year.
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When they discover their old copy of Anna Sewell's classic novel, "Black Beauty," in their horse-trailer home, they use physical theater, toys, masks, puppetry and all manner of surprises to stage excerpts from the plot and amuse themselves — and the audience.
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ASCII art was also central to the history of trolling:the "Meow Wars" of the 90s saw Usenet boards invaded with elaborate cat-themed copypasta spam, designed to amuse and annoy and to use up as much of their precious bandwidth as possible.
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Her wildly popular YouTube channel, IISuperwomanII, has already proven she can do just about anything—rap, act, write skits, hobnob with celebrities like Zendaya and Will Smith, spread awareness for mental health issues, amuse and inspire The Youth—all while being relatably wacky.
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Choreographed by Andrew Fee, who founded RAW (formerly Raw Metal) in 1998, and Jack Chambers, an alumnus of Australia's "So You Think You Can Dance" who also performs in the work, "Untapped!" sets out to amuse and stays in that key: the hard sell.
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The wealthy never run out of ways to amuse themselves in Dubai, where you can party aboard a house floating in a man-made sea, stroll through an indoor rainforest, or kick back in an ice lounge where the temperature never climbs above freezing.
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Clockwise from left: Le Specs x Adam Selman sunglasses, $119; AQUA gingham romper, $88; Anthropologie earrings, $58; Amuse Society clutch, $50 and Steve Madden sandals, $79.95 It's the start of summer, so no need to wait one second longer to break out a hot swimsuit.
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As you wait for results, you're offered a variety of options, including "Calm Me" (which plays "relaxing visual content" on your smartphone or tablet), "Educate Me" (which offers information about fertility and pregnancy) and "Entertain Me" (which offers videos meant to distract and amuse users).
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Despite having not made his formal debut as a Solo Artist since 1D's split, Liam has tried out a few genres—musical amuse-bouches, let's say—in an attempt to begin to do what very few boyband members before him have done: Go Credible.
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Directed by Holly Kristina Goldstein, it is a would-be slapstick comedy about laughing at pain — a favorite pastime of Morley (Goldie Flavelle), a nasty 15-year-old whose father sends a sad clown named Tad (Harrison Scott) to amuse her in her convalescence.
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She had been the pastry chef at Gramercy Tavern in Manhattan for more than a decade; he had worked with Charlie Palmer at the River Café in Brooklyn and at Aureole in Manhattan, and he had later become chef and partner at Amuse in Manhattan.
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After an amuse-bouche of halved radishes topped with a dollop of whipped quark and cold chicken with whipped horseradish (both refreshing), one of the servers minding the stove came to our table and invited us to select our main course and one side.
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My father and I ordered our food from the iPads affixed at every seat, and the few dishes we ate reflected late summer's bounty, like the amuse-bouche of asparagus gazpacho and the colorful baby lettuce salad with shaved asparagus, carrots and watermelon radishes.
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Perhaps this would amuse those familiar with "crash" as the term for a group of rhinos, but to the many solvers discovering it mid-solve, the puzzle probably would elicit more "Oh, fun fact, I guess" than that smile-inducing "Aha!" we strive for.
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When a pork belly amuse bouche materialized, topped off with a couple of crunchy weaver ants (a famous symbol of decay in Dalí's work), I heard people discussing the distinctive "pop" that an ant's abdomen makes in one's mouth as you bite into it.
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Telling a robot to move forward and backward with the occasional spin and LED funny face can have its initial joys, but for US$99 and up, the Codeybot needs to amuse for more than a few days if it can get kids to keep learning.
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There was a deluxe buffet hosted by Emma Stone at the Rainbow Room; tea with Marion Cotillard at Il Gattopardo; refreshments at the Lotos Club with Mark Wahlberg; nibblies with Annette Bening at Bistro Milano; amuse-bouches at Le Cirque with Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel.
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MORRIS: Yes, this group of men and women presents a gamut of what movie acting can be and do: knock you out, break your heart, scare you, delight you, amuse and haunt you, whether through vertiginously high style (hey there, Denzel and Viola) or plain-old naturalism.
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I'm trying to have my cake and eat it: I want the jokes to be open enough that a general reader can enjoy them without feeling left out, but I also like to squeeze in things to amuse people who know that particular genre or artwork in detail.
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Recently, The Verge hosted a panel at Winter Music Conference with music lawyer Kurosh Nasseri, Amuse CEO Diego Farias, SoundCloud artist relations manager Nick Tsirimokos, and Dubset VP of artist relations Clark Warner to lay out some things DIY artists should do to make more money in music.
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Foldit, a puzzle game that helps scientists with protein structure prediction, is portrayed with revolutionary fervor, while the deaths of gamers at South Korean and Chinese internet cafes is, in Herzog's opinion, a horrific omen of countless grown adults shitting their adult diapers as they amuse themselves to death.
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It's a creamy, berry-nude shade — similar to the one we custom created at the Beauty Lab a few weeks ago, only with fewer red undertones — and is jam-packed with all the hydrating butters and heavy-hitting pigment we've come to love from the Amuse Bouche formula.
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Sometimes, just to amuse ourselves, we sent each other pictures of bogus workshops in magazines — the spotless man cave with a checkerboard floor, the matching sets of low-volt gizmos that come in a zippered pouch, the wobbly miniature circular saws and flimsy drills with a quarter-inch chuck.
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As is made clear by the tasty bill of three short vintage works assembled under the title "Signature Plays," which opened on Sunday night at the Pershing Square Signature Center under the accomplished direction of Lila Neugebauer, such works still have the power to engage, amuse and, above all, disturb.
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The goal has not been to adhere closely to the plays — Tyler leaves out the framing device at the beginning, and the tamer of Kate is not Pyotr (in the play, Petruchio's use of reverse psychology to disorient but also amuse Katherina wins and subdues her at the same time).
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One Sunday morning, dressed to aerobicize ("You should be prepared to move around, lay on the ground and stretch in various positions," an e-mail from U.C.B. advised), I arrived at an office building on Eighth Avenue and Thirty-seventh Street, and psyched myself up to learn how to amuse strangers.
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Not only does she discover she's pregnant, but because of the proximity of the trysts, there's no way to know who the father is -- a predicament that seems to highly amuse her doctor (a very funny Emma Thompson, who also shares script credit with "Bridget Jones" author Helen Fielding and Dan Mazer).
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The question may seem silly — a mere amuse-bouche — but it's worth remembering that Surrealism, the "revolution of the mind," didn't set out to be just another school of painting or poetry; its "conquest of the irrational" was intended as a radically new way of viewing the world, and of living in it.
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Some patients were able to retrieve the bags of flour they used; all came from the same facility in Kansas City, Mo. Some children who fell ill had come in contact with the flour by tasting homemade playdough or raw tortilla dough that they were given at a restaurant to amuse themselves.
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While my taste buds contemplate an amuse-bouche that pairs octopus and passionfruit, I snap the seeds pleasurably under my teeth, let the tart sweetness awaken my palate for what's to come, and scan the pre-show dining room before me and determine it's decidedly middle-aged (disclaimer: I include myself in this description).
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The meal began with a pictorially perfect tray of amuse bouches: thin-cut strips of yellowtail stomach dressed in a vinegar-miso sauce, which tasted smoked though they weren't, along with a small pile of herrings fermented in the dregs of sake, and a handful of fresh snap peas, each dabbed with tiny blobs of black sesame pesto.
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She says that she admires Cusk, and was surprised that people read her recent review of Cusk's "Faye" trilogy—"Sometimes I had the sense that the chatty characters who populate these novels were just gamely trying to amuse our austere narrator, who was guaranteed to miss the joke every time"—as critical-in-a-bad-way.
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Patrons are treated to a spectacular three-course prix-fixe menu ($118) with an optional wine pairing ($84), plus a Champagne trolley, extra bites and amuse bouches from the chef, and even a mystery wine tasting, served in an all-black glass to make guessing the wine even more difficult (how very Ian Schrager of the restaurant).
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She's constantly thinking about her next one-night stand, the subjects of which alternately amuse and repulse her; she's grieving the deaths of her mother and her best friend; she doesn't know if she's a good feminist; and she can't decide whom she hates more: her fauxhemian godmother or her sister's bearded jerk of a husband.
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The sport has had other contenders: the rhythm and performance-related quips of Georges St-Pierre, the Chauncey Gardiner-esque wisdom of the Diaz brothers, the Howard Beale-ish rants of Chael Sonnen, and the subtle snarky genius of Joanna Jedrzejczyk, among few others, have all managed to amuse, delight, and vex fans and foes over the course of MMA's history.
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It used to amuse my father that I divided my time among several places: this house on the rural campus; the mellow old home in New Jersey, where my boys and their mother lived and where I would spend long weekends; my apartment in New York City, which, as time passed and my life expanded, had become little more than a pit stop between train trips.
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Other decorative elements — checkerboard floors and thick exposed beams to the hand-carved wood tables topped with citrus fruit and ceramic pieces from the brand Astier de Villatte — commanded just as much attention from other diners until the amuse-bouche of puréed lentils topped with pickled onions and espelette pepper arrived and snapped the focus back to the abiding question: would the food match the aura around it?
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His voice and delivery amuse, as his plain, masculine deadpan allows him to mock his own presence as a vocalist and the weird phrases coming out of his mouth, lending the words a welcome strangeness; it's marvelous to hear him utter bits of turned folk wisdom like "A circle does what a circle does best" and "The past never gave me anything but the blues," as if these are familiar American idioms.
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Nothing on the air seems quite so funny or delightful anymore, and the scripted shows meant to shock, provoke and amuse, whether about trans sexuality within the family ("Transparent"), murder as oh-hello ("Scandal") or weird sex stuff that women are jolly about ("Broad City," made by Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer), don't cause nearly as much shock as the testimony of real women talking about what they experience during working hours.
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FRIDAY PUZZLE — If I had asked a Magic 8 Ball last week whether my part of the country was really going to be blanketed by nearly 30 inches of snow, I can only imagine that the answer would have been "IT IS DECIDEDLY SO." That thought amused me as I was shoveling my way through the blizzard and it will continue to amuse me, at least until it is time for my next dose of Motrin.
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Thus, in this random documentation of the fauna that still may be found in certain parts of the great American prairie lying east of the Continental Divide, they have mixed such sober observation as that brief shot of the birth of a buffalo with such trickery as a metronomic montage of mountain rams banging their heads together in time to 'The Anvil Chorus' … They simply desire to shape and order nature so that it will captivate and amuse.
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And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment — the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution — not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants" — but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.
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A recent meal started with five amuse-bouches (including a supersoft, bite-size blood sausage taco), before moving on to tangy, marinated sea bass topped with crunchy red beetroot; a fisherman-meets-forager mix of cod chunks and mushrooms in warm dashi broth with herring eggs; a triple preparation of Iberian pork (including bacon pellets on ultrathin zucchini discs and a miniature kebab of pork belly cubes in tzatziki sauce); and numerous other finely wrought and flavorful inventions.
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Where else might you be confronted with her bowling onto the stage in the middle of an enormous flaming ring before breaking into "Circus," dancing with masked aliens to "Work Bitch," or writhing about, ponytail akimbo, in an unexplained onstage tree, dressed in glittering green and looking like the Biblical serpent who tempted Adam and Eve only even sexier, as only a mere intro, a palette cleanser, an amuse-bouche, in the lead up to the life-ending, earth-shaking pop symphony that is "Toxic"?
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That's all fixed in the new set of emoji, which includes a shrug emoji, a lying face (a Pinocchio elongated nose), a clown face (to creep out and amuse your friends), a selfie emoji, a right and left facing fist (virtual fist bumps!), a rolling on the floor face, a sneezing face and even a drooling face -Rolling On The Floor Laughing -Clown Face -Lying Face -Drooling Face -Nauseated Face -Sneezing Face -Prince -Shrug -Face Palm -Selfie -Hand With Index and Middle Fingers Crossed -Call Me Hand -Left-Facing Fist -Right-Facing Fist -Raised Back Of Hand -Handshake -Black Heart -Wilted Flower The update also adds a few people our emoji menu has been missing, like Mrs.
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