Word: banquetting
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...rnstrand. They are met by Sigvor's three sons. All six of them are blond and beautiful and brave; they hammer at one another all day in endless rounds of mounted combat. Then they declare the blood feud over and retire to a sauna romp and a brotherly banquet, at which
...boss, played by Orson Welles, wants him back. Eventually Welles, whose acting is confined to grinning like a corrupt Buddha, removes the Gadfly's sting by acquiring its assets and offices. Undone, Andrew makes one more commercial, this one about Truth. The night of a banquet for the Creativity in Advertising awards, he unreels it-a naive diatribe against planned obsolescence that includes footage of a bulldozer shoveling bodies at Buchenwald and an atomic mushroom cloud rising while a little girl sings All Things Bright and Beautiful...
...really running the country," and with the Foreign Minister and a colonel on General Giap's staff. They were, he says, forthright and "very courteous," except for their ritual charges of genocide and their use of propaganda phraseology. On his last night, North Vietnamese officials laid on a banquet of "a number of dishes, two of which were dog, which is a delicacy in North and South Viet Nam," and which he interpreted as an indication of their special admiration...
Kosygin did not waste the chance. After attending a wrestling performance, he appeared at a state banquet to declare that "the Soviet Union is prepared to help Iran for the quickest possible exploitation of its natural resources." He also persuaded the Iranians to quintuple their Soviet trade, making Russia their biggest customer and biggest supplier. Finally, he talked the Shah into taking Russia in as a full partner in the exploitation of vast copper and oilfields that lie in central Iran. Even for Kosygin, it was an unusually profitable trip...
...fans the winter just past was less joyous than it rightfully should have been. At first the rubbery chicken and mashed peas of the banquet circuit tasted like squab and asparagus hollandaise, but Jim Lonborg's skiing injury and Tony Conigliaro's non-recovery from last year's beaning ruined the flavor...