Word: caviar
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...Back then, Bettie Page was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Titter, Whisper and Wink, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day, maybe any day. (She was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy.) As a movie actress she had a different appeal, limited but intense. Bettie was rich Corinthian leather to connoisseurs of specialized, and at the time subterranean, erotica - the kind that showed women, dressed in black undergarments and stockings, and pumps with six-inch heels, getting spanked, trussed and gagged...
...potential public relations consequences of an agreement to hand over terminals to a company owned by a country that had been home to two of the 9/11 hijackers, both of whom laundered their money in its banks? A distraught Republican summed up the party's problem: the episode was "caviar for Democrats." And it was a role reversal that must have been most satisfying for them too, since it put Bush in the position of arguing nuances of international diplomacy that got lost in the alarmist din over security...
...designated as future world leaders. So why, one might ask, is it so difficult for us to take a little initiative in our undergraduate careers? We have worked hard, but we have also had many things handed to us on a silver platter and served with a side of caviar. Unfortunately, that’s not exactly the way the real world works. If we expect to make something of ourselves in the future, we better start by learning to take action now rather than simply crying out in complaint...
...HALTED. The global trade in STURGEON CAVIAR; by the secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES); in Geneva. CITES, which sets annual limits for caviar-exporting countries, has refused to announce quotas for 2006, effectively prohibiting the trade. Sturgeon populations in the Caspian sea region, which produces most of the world's caviar, are believed to have fallen 90% in the past 30 years. Two previous bans, in 2001 and 2002, failed to reverse the decline...
...think it’s wonderful to be an elitist,” says John I. Simon ’46. “You shouldn’t eat shit when you can eat caviar.” Perhaps it’s all the talk of theater, but my drama-class instincts come rushing back when I hear him say the E-word so proudly, and I do a double take. But I shouldn’t be surprised; we’ve been dancing around the question of elitism all evening.And for good reason. No mere triple...