Home! Rice, rice, rice!" Very loud laughter.
Since May 2005, there have been eight such discoveries in this quiet countryside of rice and crawfish farms in southwestern Louisiana.
It turns out that he has traded in his celebrity status on the communist frontier for a quiet life selling rice cakes in a gift shop on the small island of Sado, a three-hour ferry ride off the north coast of Japan.
Visiting Quang Ngai, a quiet town set among rice paddies, your correspondent was startled by a snappily dressed young Vietnamese couple flashing down the main street in an open-topped red Ford Mustang.
Lombok, a quiet island of brilliantly green rice terraces, fog-covered mountains and tiny fishing villages, had happily joined the race for tourists and in the last few years had gained a favorable reputation among foreign travel agencies.
He said it surprised him when Mr. Afsaruddin -- a quiet, well-liked man who sells cooked rice along the roadside -- responded with uncharacteristic boldness.
At Rice High School in Harlem, he was quiet, deferential, and he did not truly blossom until his junior season.
(Had Rice fought because of her supposedly quiet neighborhood and her own sleepless nights, Schwartz said, she would have run the risk of being cast as a thin-skinned, haughty, liberal, anti-Catholic bourgeoisie).
Quiet as parents on Christmas Eve, we ferried tubs of rice cakes and wet wipes from Costco into a back entry porch.
They are lovely, in a quiet way: iddly, it turns out, are cakes of steamed rice and bean flour, lightly fermented and faintly sour.
