Word: caking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suffering. The barge companies supply all meals, and the fare is fine. The men on the Ann Blessey polish off inch-thick steaks several times a week. Lunch one day last week on the Hawkeye consisted of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, tamale pie, green beans, pineapple upside-down cake and fresh bread. "The cook's probably working harder than anybody," says Dennis Drury, captain of the Cooperative Vanguard...
...multitiered wedding cake was topped by two turkeys, one with a stethoscope, the other wearing ballet shoes. Except for that quaint nod to Thanksgiving, the marriage last week of Mary Tyler Moore, 45, to Manhattan Cardiologist Robert Levine, 29, went on without any of the giddy glitches that usually bedeviled Mary Richards, her old TV alter ego. After the traditional Jewish ceremony (Moore, a Catholic, took instruction in Judaism but has not converted to her husband's faith), the bride cut the cake for some 300 guests, including such MTM alumni as Valerie ("Rhoda") Harper, Cloris Leachman...
When U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman, 57, strode into Moscow's wedding cake-style foreign ministry last week, it was not a courtesy call. He was there to protest the renewal of mysterious microwave beam transmissions directed at the U.S. embassy. On other occasions, however, the 6-ft. 3-in. Hartman makes it his business to keep the lines of communication open with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and other top officials. Hartman, who worked closely with Henry Kissinger during the Nixon and Ford Administrations, has provided his first on-the-record interview to an American correspondent in Moscow, TIME...
...long-distance calls by 10.5%. Critics point out that this would add up to a reduction of only $1.75 billion, or about half the amount AT&T is getting. Says John Bryant, a Congressman from Texas, in a medley of metaphors: "They're trying to have their cake and eat it too. That put the last nail in the coffin of AT&T as a truthteller." Judge Greene will conduct a hearing into the entire matter next week...
...that deserve an honorable place on the American table include kulebyaka, the glorious salmon pie described by Chekhov as "shameless in its nakedness, a temptation to sin"; pirozhki, the more plebeian meat or vegetable pies; kidney and dill pickle soup; Azerbaidzhan lamb patties; veal stew with cherries; Ukrainian honey cake; smetannik, a rich pie of sour cream, jam and nuts; and the celebrated Guriev kasha, a thickened compote of brandied fruits. To round out a Russian banquet, Goldstein provides instructions for a dozen deliciously flavored vodkas, and with them a toast to the meal: Eshte, eshte na zdorovye...