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Ehrlichman, alas, serves up a minibiography as each minor character appears ("His age was hard to peg," etc.). He is afflicted by compulsive total recall of menus (at CIA headquarters dessert is austere "melon and cookies"; the G Street Club offers "a perfect, soft Brie"). But his prose, often better than serviceable, is sometimes very cutting indeed. (The political career of a Democratic Vice President is summed up as "a lackluster, snail creep to seniority.") By the time the reader gets to President No. 3, Richard Monckton, he is meant to accept Ehrlichman's jungle view of life...
...York's leading party girls and gate-crashers." Streperous Sylvia, who was acclaimed as the prostitute in Midnight Cowboy, wasted no time talking back. Invited to the same New York Film Festival party as Simon, she piled her plate with pat, steak tartare, brie and potato salad and dumped it over him. "Now you can call me a plate crasher too," she said. Spluttered the garnished critic: "I'll be sending you the cleaning bill for this suit." Rejoined Sylvia: "It'll be the first time it's been cleaned." Fellow actors planned to organize...
This month his dream materialized in the village of La Trétoire in the heart of the Brie cheese country 55 miles east of Paris. There, on seven acres of woods and meadows, Bernard Fischler opened a 62-room hotel, called Mon Club, designed exclusively for 220 children from ages three to 16. Adult guests are strictly off limits...
Lord and Lady Clark sampled the Harvard Student Agencies' finest Brie and exotic liquors. Clark continued to expand on the lecture topic to hordes of admirers, but wearily confessed, "I'm too old to do research. I prefer to pick people's brains...
...shoes, German beer and French wines more expensive. But nobody knows by how much?or how soon. For some imports there is still a few months' supply left?surcharge-exempt?in Stateside stores and warehouses. Even for perishable items like cheese, stockpiles vary immensely: ten days' supply for French Brie, two months' for Swiss Gruyere. Foreign producers are delaying their decisions on price increases until the new value of the dollar is established. In any case, the extra cost to U.S. consumers will rarely be as much as 10%. The surcharge is imposed on wholesale prices, which are seldom more...