Word: chateau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tons of food and drink flown in for the postcoronation feast included cases of Chateau-Lafite Rothschild and Chateau Mouton-Rothschild ('71) wines, which sell in the U.S. for $25 a bottle. The appetizer: a tureen of caviar so large that two chefs carried it in. The dessert: a green, seven-tier cake complete with half a dozen doves that flew out to hover over the imperial plate...
After gamely fighting out of their chateau d'if CCNY was finally polished off by the Crimson's rapier-sharp passing in the final five minutes. Bobby Allen hit on a three-point play and dropped a pair from the line to give the hoopsters a 78-68 lead with 4:04 left in the game. Rich Bengel then found himself all alone for a layup that upped the gap to an insurmountable 11 points, which proved the final margin of victory...
Miller has also boosted newsstand sales by featuring a show-biz celebrity on the cover each month. The August cover offering a guide to 500 Southern California restaurants, pictures Rex Harrison awaiting dinner with a salivating smile-and an uncorked bottle of Chateau Latour '69. That, in the kingdom of Gallo is class...
...eyes in his portraits, large, white, engorged with visual appetite, look like erogenous zones. All his women-those grandly callipygian wardrobes of radiant flesh, whose bodies we feebly classify as "fat"-seem, as Sir Joshua Reynolds once remarked, to have "fed upon roses." The late landscapes he painted around Chateau de Steen, his country seat out side Brussels, are an extraordinary blend of the God's-eye-view landscape of mannerist art with the dense enumeration of Rubens' own material possessions...
This spring's prom-trotters are crowding into fancy nightclubs like the Chateau de Ville in Framingham, Mass., where as many as four dances may be going on in one evening, and the management hopes that the girls will come back some day for their weddings. Around Long Beach, Calif., one of the most popular prom spots is aboard the Queen Mary, now serving as a floating hostelry in her genteel retirement. The ballrooms of the onetime grande dame of the North Atlantic are crowded with ten or so dances a week, and the demand is so high, says...