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...Penh, where he was soon reunited with his wife Diane. From there, the couple flew to Saigon for a festive gathering with members of the Saigon bureau and Time-Life News Service Chief Murray Gart, who flew in from Europe via Tashkent. Gart arrived with champagne, a tin of caviar and a bottle of vodka, which formed the first course of a feast that lasted well into the night, as Anson set about regaining some of those lost pounds. He reports on his experience in this week's World section...
...private chat later that afternoon. The two men talked for almost four hours, with only interpreters present. The contents of the discussion were not announced, but the talk lasted so long that Brandt did not even have time to change shirts before going to his hosts' official dinner (caviar, pheasant, salmon and suckling...
...fine acting. Llody Schwartz's Kolenkhov is a natural scene-stealer. He pronounces "The Monte Carlo Ballet" with just the right Bela Lugosi intonation, he talks and gestures like a proud Rasputin fallen on bad times, and his Romanov leer is so hilariously Russian that one can smell the caviar in the pit. George Mager's classic internal revenue agent scene is a stunning shtic planted in the first act. And Suzanne Sato's wonderful costumes are more convincing than those in any other period piece I've seen...
Last winter and spring, the French Maoists firmly established themselves on the outer fringes of the lunatic left with a series of riots, bomb attacks and a daring caviar and foie gras heist in broad daylight at Fauchon, the epicures' haul grocery of Paris. Next, one of their leaders, Alain Geismar, 26, advised that they make it a "hot summer for the bourgeoisie." Shortly before he was hauled off to jail for inciting riots, Geismar made a tape recording in which he urged his comrades to camp in the gardens of private villas, picnic on golf greens and convert...
...Tokyo, Bangkok or Beirut. Middle-aged women gaze disapprovingly at the miniskirted teenagers. Many Iranians can afford to buy the autos and clothes of their choice because the Alaska-size country no longer has an economy based on "the three C's": cotton, carpets and caviar. Under the prodding of the Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Iran's widely diversified gross national product has increased 10.5% annually since the mid-1960s, and last year per-capita income rose from...