Word: caking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's no baloney with Grandma," Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's grandson Christopher Lawford observes toward the end of this book. Christopher's young cousin, John F. Kennedy Jr., explains: Rose likes you to learn a lot, and she gives you plenty of cake...
Equality's claims are just as insistent. They begin as early as the child's "It's my turn," the sense of injustice when brother's piece of cake is larger than his. Fairness, evenhandedness, seems a natural property of equality-first come, first served-and accounts for that deep-seated American prejudice against queue jumpers and insiders' advantages. Equality also speaks to the generous impulses: the readiness to help the other fellow and succor the needy, the unwillingness to seem superior to one's fellow man or lord it over...
...Hills and the Kremlin's Spassky Gate. Tables groaned under caviar, salmon, sturgeon, steak, beef Stroganoff, fruits and Georgian wines. There was even a special celebration for Kissinger's daughter Elizabeth, who was traveling with her father and who turned 15 in Moscow. She received a birthday cake from the American embassy, a present from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and VIP seats for herself and Brother David, 12, at the Moscow Circus...
...Henri Langlois' hallowed Cinémathèque Française. The first night coincided with Gloria's 75th birthday, a statistic proved ridiculous when she appeared at the birthday party in a slinky blue and green diagonally striped gown. After blowing out the candles on her cake, Chicago-born Swanson told the crowd assembled at the cinema museum that she had always felt at home in France. Why? "Because with my Swedish ancestors I surely have a little French blood in my veins," said Gloria mystifyingly...
...swoony, slicked-up prose that rings with a sort of distorted familiarity. Her reveries are shaped and peopled by popular legend. Kit, to her, looks just like James Dean. Her reminiscences sound like a diary read to a blank wall. She recalls that her father kept his wedding cake in the freezer for ten years, and that after her mother's funeral he presented it to the yardman...