Word: buffetting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though accustomed to serving small gatherings (80 at most) from a nearby kitchen, the superstars quickly adjusted to mass-feeding with unfamiliar equipment from labyrinthine kitchens as far as seven decks below. The only near disaster came at lunch the first day, when the company hurled itself upon the buffet tables like famished refugees. (Thereafter, lunch was served at guests' tables...
...what you will want to masticate. The specialties at the Wursthaus are eastern European food and exotic beers from the world over, which all Harvard freshmen buy so they can have pretty rows of beer bottles on their mantlepieces. The prices are moderate here and the "special"--a luncheon buffet upstairs--commands $2.75. The food is quite good, though, and the Wursthaus really offers one of the most interesting fares in the Square...
...Galley and a bevy of lesser government officials were to be on hand for the ceremony. But the celebration was unceremoniously ruined last week by angry local farmers. They first blocked the highway by putting up a wall of flaming tires, then spread manure and urine around the outdoor buffet tables where champagne and petits fours were to be served. After looting the area of decorative plants and flowers, they finally settled down to drink the champagne themselves...
...taste." The original version of Sweet Eros offended the sensibilities of the guardians of morality; now the show is no more obscene than Governor Sargent playing footsie with Louise Day Hicks on the bussing issue. Tonight and tomorrow the action starts at 8. Sunday's performance begins by a buffet-dance with prizes for the best Billy the Kid and Jean Harlow look-alikes...
...ballet, opera, folk singing, Cossack dancing and even a chorus of Swanee River, in both English and Russian. The couples, together with Kissinger, Kosygin and Podgorny, watched the performance from a flag-draped box at the rear of the theater, and during the intermission gathered for a light buffet. Toasting the women at the table, Brezhnev gallantly reached into a bouquet of roses and handed one to Pat Nixon. Talking to the performers backstage after the curtain, Nixon said that he had seen "a combination of variety, vitality and beauty-and that represents the whole [Soviet] nation." He invited...