Word: canape
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known for a mean left and the other for a mean write, but last week Norman Mailer and Truman Capote were on their best behavior. Only bons mots and canapés were passed around at a Manhattan discothèque party celebrating the publication of Southern Baptist Dotson Rader's new book Miracle. To get in the spirit of things, Dotson and a friend sang hymns between disco numbers. "Why not? After all, television mixes apples with astronauts," opined Mailer, 55, who is writing a book about Gary Gilmore, the executed murderer. "It's a new angle...
...silent) and La Grenouille (the maitre d's name is Jean), send their children to the Dalton School, winter in St. Maarten or Gstaad, summer in the Hamptons, patronize the priciest boutiques but also thriftshop, and know exactly where to find the best buys in catered canapés, scuba lessons, English butlers, conversational Italian, take-out lasagna, abortions, exterminators, '76 Beaujolais, yachts, docks, clocks, stocks, rocks, lox and woks. Also rijsttafel, macramé and dog psychologists who make house calls. With all this, plus extramarital affairs to save their marriages and therapeutic sex with their shrinks...
...eight-hour music and comedy show. At that, the reception was an austerity model, in deference to Egypt's economic problems. The entertainers, including an ample belly dancer, donated their services. And the father of the bride cut costs by serving the guests only a light snack of canapés and cakes...
...epicure's dream of meals prepared by four of France's most brilliant chefs. In all, for up to $900 a stomach, they put away 1,800 bottles of Moët et Chandon 1969 champagne, 4,000 more bottles of red and white wine, 10,000 canapés, 264 Ibs. of caviar, 244 Ibs. of foie gras, one ton of meat, 250 chickens, 250 ducks, 1,322 Ibs. of seafood, 1,322 Ibs. of vegetables, 25,000 petits fours and other gastronomical delights in astronomical quantities...
...Gaston Lenôtre, 54, France's dessert-maker sans pareil and its leading traiteur, a specialist in canapés, sandwiches and salads (he was in charge of all the lunches and desserts...