Word: caviar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
black lumpfish caviar, smoked trout, salmon and shrimp. Crooning in the background were the Augusta Singers, a group of black balladiers. The bash, hosted by the Governor and Atlanta's Citizens and Southern National Bank, was the high point of the annual meeting of the American Bankers Association, which had attracted to Georgia's capital some 10,000 financial executives from across...
...unbelievable that anyone of Billy Graham's stature could say that there was no evidence of religious repression in the U.S.S.R. [May 24]. He ignores countless martyrs as well as the closing of thousands of churches. It is likewise incredible that he would take the availability of caviar at his meals as evidence of widespread prosperity in the "socialist paradise...
Since Graham had been out of the country for a while, Brinkley crisply summed up the American reaction to Graham's trip: "That you have been royally entertained, taken around Moscow in a limousine, fed caviar three times a day, and have been 'taken in.' What is your response to that?" Graham: "David, I was not taken in." The evidence seems to be that he was, but what is of interest is the way Graham was questioned-the technique of the unbuttressed accusation disguised as a question. In television interviewing, this dubious tactic is now acceptable shorthand...
...this revelation that was on display during Graham's appearance last week at a Kremlin-approved anti-nuclear conference in Moscow-a series of sermons, meetings and dinners that seemed to dazzle and delude the globetrotting evangelist. "In the U.S., only a millionaire could afford caviar," Graham noted, "and here I have had caviar with every meal...
...pools and a casino, was a some what more complicated task. Most of the luxurious furniture and fittings from the public rooms were removed. Cunard decided to store ashore the bone china, the crystal glassware, the potted plants, the 17,000 bottles of champagne and the half-ton of caviar. Passengers had hardly disembarked at Southampton before vases and linens, cycling machines and weight-lifting equipment from the ship's gymnasium, and countless other items were packed in crates and hauled away. The paintings were taken down, but the walls of smoked glass and the polished chrome bar tables...