Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family history suggests an atmosphere of caprice and superfluity conducive to the formation of a surrealist temperament. Bunuel's father, a successful businessman whom Bunuel describes as a man of extreme leisure ("the only thing my father would carry in the street was his elegantly wrapped jar of caviar"), seems to have had a surrealist's sense of humor. Bunuel grew up in "a very large and bourgeois apart-grew up in "a very large and bourgeois apart-10 balconies and took up the entire second floor of the building." While this spawning ground may have seemed fairly unrevolutionary...
...years of talks, the U.S.S.R. had increased its force of SS-20 missiles in Europe and Asia from some 140 to roughly 360. The U.S., said Nitze, "throughout this period has continued negotiating." As farewell gifts, the Americans presented the Soviets with pocket calculators; the Soviets bestowed lacquered bowls, caviar and vodka. After his departure, Kvitsinsky made a one-sentence statement to newsmen: "The present round of negotiations has been discontinued, and no date has been set for a resumption...
TASS, the Soviet news agency, showed no such reluctance in publicizing the fate of a Moscow store manager. Yuri Sokolov, former director of the Gastronom No. 1, Moscow's finest food store, was renowned for being able to supply his customers with such rare or rationed delicacies as caviar, smoked sturgeon, coffee and Indian tea. As caterer to the capital's elite, Sokolov lived in high style and had friends close to Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
...pork and endless embellishments. In Wolfert's interpretation it becomes a thick stew enriched with preserved duck or goose, ham hock and garlic sausage. Among other distinctive potages, she stirs up a modern version of a traditional Basque soup called ttoro and an oyster velouté with black caviar made from Gironde River sturgeon...
...pollen mixed with caviar has been the only aphrodisiac successful in curing Rajah's coupling problems. Kerr explained. Currently, be pollen is in high demand in Toronto, so Kerr came to Boston to fill a $100,000 order with Frederick C. Kulow '47. President of Bee Pollen from England...