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Diane first told us about Argent. It was two years ago, and a friend and I used to go into the Coop record department just to hand out, because we never had any money. We'd just gotten to be regulars, the point at which people began to mistake us for employees, when we met Diane, who really did work there. We started to show up just to see her. And everytime we did, she'd slide over and say just one word, "Argent," in a very sultry voice. Seemed she sang with a band, which had played a weekend...
World War I puts the "connoisseur of bad generalship," as Fair styles himself, to the same exquisite torture an oenophilist might face in the cellars of the Tour d'Argent. There were so many foolish commanders that it is hard to pick only one or two for special commendation. Sir Douglas Haig, however, can at least be called representative. The battle of Loos (September 1915) was typical of his style. He began the engagement with a gas attack that hurt the British more than the Germans. Next morning he mounted a massed assault by nearly 10,000 troops against...
Here are no palm swelling rubles; small argent barn...
...lizard airs of Fielding-may lack stomach for the unstarred beaneries and spare accommodations of Frommer's Europe. But others choose the best of both worlds, take the money they have saved with $5 a Day and squander all on a gala dinner at the Tour d'Argent-where the décor is exquisite, the food superb, and the prices unmentionable...
Ineffable Light. Since Moses & Co. enigmatically disclosed six weeks ago that the Guide would incorporate "a big decision about one Paris restaurant," culinary Cassandras have been predicting disaster for one of the capital's Big Four: Maxim's, Lapérouse, Grand Vefour, Tour d'Argent (which was demoted to ** in 1952, restored in 1954). Last week, within minutes of the Guide's release, gastronomes learned that, instead, Michelin had pinned a third star on Lasserre, an epicurean pavilion off the Champs-Elysées. Among its celebrated specialties: Sole fourrée Bagatelle ($2.20), breaded...