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...pedicab parked in the lobby, menus bound in batik, hostesses in flowing Indonesian gowns. At night, when native dancers perform, the restaurant's prices are high, but the buffet lunch is a bargain: for $5.50, guests can take their pick of dozens of spicy (skewered beef) or sweet (banana soup) dishes. For some executives from nearby oil-company offices, however, the food must have a bitter taste these days. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the restaurant was built largely with money "coerced" out of U.S. companies by the former head of Pertamina, the Indonesian government oil company...
...Paul's Mall). The Jazz Workshop has that great Chick Corea sideman Joe Farrell, in until Sunday. Farell plays a funky saxophone and flute and is best remembered on Corea's terrific Inner Space album. Funny thing about Farrell, he is the headliner and Corea is the second banana on their latest release...
...Banana Breakfast," an "empirical" survey of banana pancakes, scones and kreplach...
...food manager at the Desert Inn had been alerted that some ice cream was coming in for Hughes and that it was supposed to be kept secret. "We still had a few scoops of the old banana-nut left when the new banana-nut arrived," Margulis says. "So we were all set for the rest of Hughes' lifetime...
United Fruit has renamed itself United Brands, symbolizing the neutralization of its image and its power. It is getting older, weaker, and somehow more real. The banana plantations are still there, as ghostly as ever now that the banana bunches grow inside plastic bags on the trees, but they no longer exude their malevolent smell of intimidation. The local managers are smoothies instead of rednecks, and the worders are a well-off aristocracy of labor rather than serfs. The company has even gotten out of landowning, and prefers marketing and shipping...