Word: basil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French cuisine has been more memorable for its price ($65 for prix-fixe dinner) than for its excellence. The cream of mussel soup known as billi-bi, a Maxim's invention, is decently turned out, but stale-tasting duck pate and the overly complicated, overcooked saddle of lamb with basil cream could not even be considered near misses. The gaudy interior, a bad copy of the Paris setting, includes such embarrassingly corny touches as violinists serenading customers as they climb stairs to the dining room. Nevertheless, Manhattan's Maxim's is merely a model; Cardin is planning a series...
...Tapas is being naturalized," says the trim-bearded, tall-toqued chef. "We include many non-Spanish dishes. Anything that suits the idea." He cites such Italian entries as pasta, salads of mozzarella, basil and tomato, and caponata, the Sicilian eggplant relish. Add to that the steak tartare, fish chowder and salmon with aquavit and dill served at the Tapas Restaurant located in north Cambridge, Mass., and it is clear that tapas have be come all-around citizens of the world...
...Great Mouse Detective a mouse chanteuse performs what may be the first tentative striptease in the Disney canon. Otherwise it's business and pleasure as usual. Keen-witted Basil of Baker Street and his colleague Dr. Dawson search for a girl mouse's father, a toymaker abducted by the evil rodent genius Professor Ratigan. The movie's scene-stealer is a peg-legged bat named Fidget, who gets laughs when someone stomps on his foot ("My only foot!"). Later Basil and Dawson are trussed up on Ratigan's killer mousetrap, a Rube Spielberg device that jump-starts the filmmakers' ingenuity...
There are occasions, Amos admits, when the distortions of life far exceed those of art. Evelyn Waugh's scapegrace Basil Seal (Black Mischief) is based in part on an aristocrat who might have arrived from the set of early Monty Python. As a houseguest, Basil Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Fourth Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, liked to borrow a pound from the butler and later tip him with it. The title character of V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas is a version of the author's father, a West Indian journalist. Seepersad Naipaul publicly labeled the rite...
...midnight, the air was biting. Our contacts had been made. After watching the changing of the guard in front of Lenin's tomb, and digesting the impressive splendor of St. Basil's Cathedral we returned in pairs to the hotel...