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...that he wanted "to meet Mrs. Strauss and for you to meet Mrs. Yeltsin and for me to practice some personal diplomacy in the American style." During cocktails in a small sitting room, Strauss served the Tex-Mex nachos he likes to make. "There's no point in serving caviar to the President of Russia," he said. Before the couples adjourned to the family dining room, Strauss offered a toast to "you, your country and to what you've done for the world. It has been," he added, "an inspiration to all of us." Yeltsin smiled and gave a surprising...
...costing $10,000 for a week's holiday for two. "On the Sea Goddess, it's like being an invited guest on a yacht," says Ronald Santangelo, senior vice president. "If you get up at 3 a.m. and wander out to the hot tub and would like to have caviar and a bottle of champagne, somebody will be there in two minutes with it. No questions asked." And no additions to the bill...
...Says Barry Wine, whose Quilted Giraffe in Manhattan is a rare East Coast Cal-Asian spot: "You can do this only in America, where there is less cultural baggage to lift." Nobu Matsuhisa, whose eponymous Beverly Hills restaurant serves masterly food, observes, "Here I use French truffles and Caspian caviar...
...freshly bagged slice of pie (tax free) as opposed to a similarly sized prepackaged pie (taxable). While conservative talk-show hosts ridicule the new laws as regulation run amuck, liberal critics blister them as unfair: a worker's pretzel is subject to the tax, but a CEO's caviar...
Life aboard Yeltsin's campaign plane has its perks. The Tupolev jet is several cuts above most Aeroflot planes, with a clean interior and flight attendants who actually attend. Dinner on the flight to Perm included caviar on eggs, fresh salads, half a chicken and unlimited Pepsi, tea and coffee. Yeltsin's bodyguards, Makarov pistols dangling in shoulder holsters, bantered with officials and reporters in the aisles. The Soviet reporters passed around the vodka and caught up on sleep. The phone system is so bad that Russian reporters working domestically don't bother to write on laptop computers; they...