Word: attractants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What they have begun to mean to American restaurateurs is a new way to attract the gastronomically curious and diet-conscious, who prefer to sample a progression of small dishes rather than limit tasting options to one large main course. Labeled grazers by the restaurant industry, this generally young and trendy clientele is flocking to tapas bars from coast to coast...
...packed maze of tables, counters and bars, with all the tapas symbols in place: hanging hams and sausages, ropes of garlic and peppers, and sides of dried salt codfish. Noise, music, tiles and fake Spanish paintings (a not- quite- Picasso Guernica here, a playful pseudo-Miro there) attract yuppies of all ages, who begin to line up at 6:30 every evening. Among the more delectable possibilities: red beans with snails, a layered potato omelet, white beans with clams, and deep-fried eggs. Usually on hand are steak with chili corn sauce, stuffed squid, eggplant and tomato combinations and even...
Every aspect of the hotel's decoration, including the design of matching marble toilets and bidets, was personally supervised by the famed couturier. Since the hotel is located in Paris' posh eighth arrondissement not far from the official residence of the President of France, Cardin hopes that it will attract visiting diplomats and royalty...
...well-groomed. The block right across the street from the Kennedy School of Government will convince you that the yuppie gene is dominant. The Shays Wine Bar--the newest shi-shi place to toss down at Lafite Rothschild or two--and the Boathouse Bar--a tradition-laden drinking place--attract the upwardly mobile like an American Express gold card. If you want to drink here make sure you're well dressed or they will laugh at your I.D. even if it is the real thing...
Just as the Eastern European Block regimes attract little steady attention from the American population, South Africa is relying on a closed-door policy just short of an iron curtain. If, as Pik Botha stated, the primary purpose of white South Africans is to survive, then perhaps a sacrifice of some of their public ties to Western nations would not be too high a price...