Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three weeks, much of Hillenbrand's interviewing occurred during lunches in Salzburg and dinners in Bayreuth, where Levine conducted Parsifal. "We shared caviar on the Concorde back to New York and dined in Greenwich Village and Soho," recalls Hillenbrand. "I did so much interviewing over food that my tape recorder was covered with grease stains." He found Levine "a man of few pretensions, who is still very much a Midwesterner: open, direct, optimistic...
...some praised his spirit, but others carped about his technical waywardness, a criticism that haunted him for nearly 30 years. Disheartened, Rubinstein returned to Europe, where he lived the uncertain, itinerant life of an aspiring performer, moving from hotel to hotel, from country to country, dining on lobster and caviar one week and on a sausage and dry roll the next...
...primarily by U.S. banks and built with American materials. One buffet luncheon was organized by Armand Hammer, 84, the chairman of Occidental Petroleum, who knew Lenin and who has been doing business with the Soviets for six decades. Wine and Georgian champagne flowed. Guests dined on mounds of black caviar, crab claws and smoked fish...
Saks Fifth Avenue has kindly consented to provide the beluga caviar (4 oz. for $88). Pepperidge Farm has prepared Father's favorite hot Bing Cherry Soup with Burgundy (in a selection of eight cans for $18.95). Hampton Farms has, especially for us, smoked a 9-lb. young torn turkey over hickory embers (only $29.95). English plum pudding ($12) is on its way from Altman's. The wines, all from good old Sherry-Lehmann 's catalogue, will go from Perrier-Jouet Grand Brut (about $20) with the caviar, to Chateau d'Yquern ($90) with...
...Caviar and Yquem are a minuscule part of the mail-order industry, which caters to every conceivable need of the American buyer except finding parking space, spending hours to find the objects he seeks and quite possibly dealing with surly salesclerks in jampacked retail stores. Those catalogues, offering everything from $29 anoraks to $4 Zippo lighters, have become a major factor in the U.S. economy. As subtly and sneakily as a falling nightgown strap from the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalogue, they have exerted a refreshing influence on American consumers and their style...