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...Dinesen went into decline, Thurman reports, "she let down her guard, she relaxed her crooked smile, and her eyes-which she still carefully made up with kohl-seemed to stream with light. There was something almost inhuman about her fragility. . . She was, in fact, dying of malnutrition. After the asparagus season was over she lived exclusively on glasses of fruit and vegetable juice, ampules of gelée royale, oysters and dry biscuits...
...does not matter if crops are good or bad; the farm problem never goes away [Oct. 4]. As a retiree on a limited income, I can rarely afford butter, steak, asparagus or roast. While I am using margarine, my taxes are being used in part to pay for butter, which the Federal Government will be giving away. It makes me sick...
...indications were, however, that the leaders paid as much attention to the food (salad of seafood with asparagus; truffled grenadines of veal) as to diplomacy. Said Reagan: "We did not get into heavy discussions." That night Reagan played host to Mitterrand at a lavish dinner (sea bass flambe, saddle of lamb) at the American embassy. Toasting his guest, Reagan remarked that 60,000 Americans lie buried in France, where they fought in the two world wars. Mitterrand recalled that French soldiers fought beside Americans in the U.S. Revolutionary...
THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A CANOE. A friend in New England recently put in an asparagus bed he won't be able to enjoy a meal from for two years. Also spinach for this summer, unions for fall, Jerusalem artichokes for a Christmas treat--but he was ready for some pleasure now; and that's what his canoe...
...first time in years, John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, 49, was photographed with ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, 39, and Wife Linda, 39. The rendezvous took place over a pricey meal (asparagus and fettuccine with wild mushrooms) at Manhattan's ultra-chic Le Cirque restaurant, and may have been nothing more than "simply a friendly lunch," as a McCartney business aide insisted. The McCartneys and Ono were not the coziest of friends when the group was still together, so the event took on the significance of an unscheduled summit meeting. According to eyewitnesses, the diners chatted amiably enough...