Word: caviar
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This remarkable exercise in betteir communication between the two so cieties was topped off with a vodka-and-caviar reception in the hotel's ballroom overlooking the Moscow skyline. In a gesture that heartens admen the world over, Vneshtorgreklama President Anatoliy V. Vasilyev asked to see a rate card. And to Charlie Bear's diplomatic comment that "all things are accomplishable by time and effort," Vasilyev replied that "the time for TIME is propitious...
...gilt parlors and echoing halls of Algiers' $30 million Club des Pins sulked 1,800 idle Algerian servants, aided by 30 idle French maitres d'hotel and chefs, who demanded and got a month's salary for what ended up being five days' work. Imported caviar, champagne, whisky and steak poured into the cavernous complex even as delegates and foreign ministers from 45 nations made their reservations to depart. The club's living quarters were not even filled; most diplomats preferred the bustling Aletti Hotel downtown, or the St. George, where the frug...
Andy, it seemed, was making an underground movie of people seeing an underground movie, letting his camera automatically scan back and forth between the world of coupons and caviar and that of pop and pot. After several paper cups full of champagne and apple cider, the socialites unbuttoned their suit jackets, set their ties at half-mast, and mixed it up with the denizens of the underground on the dance floor. Said one girl in a Pucci gown: "This is a gas! I mean, this is what I call a real party...
...three each for adults and children-all outdoors and heated) and more art than several substantial museums. It has 30 bars, lounges and public galleries, and in its ample pantries carries 23,000 liters of wine, 3,500 liters of champagne and Asti Spumante and 330 Ibs. of Iranian caviar. The ship also carries, however, a technical flaw common to many new ships: strong vibrations caused by slight faults in the propellers, which will be replaced when it returns to Genoa...
...called "Suivez-moi, jeune homme" (Follow me, young man). Soon she was wearing a velvet vest embroidered with 240 diamonds. Admirers gave her gilded carriages and chateaux, buckets of jewels, and a mansion on the Champs-Elysées. A U.S. millionaire invited Otero to a simple supper of caviar and oysters-in each oyster lay a pearl. By 1894 she was so rich that she spurned an offer of 10,000 francs for one night, and the luckless man killed himself in humiliation. Young Prince Peter of Russia begged Otero, "Ruin me, but don't leave me." Premier...