Word: chateaubriands
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...rios Associados is the huge publishing empire (31 newspapers, five magazines, 20 radio and twelve TV stations) owned by ailing Press Lord Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand and now run by a triumvirate of editors who are militantly antiCommunist. Some weeks ago, Brizola attacked the group, hinting at shady dealings with the Bank of Brazil. Diários struck back by turning loose David Nasser, 46, Brazil's best-read and most-feared columnist. In a series of four articles in the big (circ. 425,000), slick O Cruzeiro magazine, Nasser laid into Brizola as "the beast of the Apocalypse...
...director (Jack Cardiff, who did Sons and Lovers), infinitudes of the usual fauna and some spectacular shots of Mount Kenya. It also has a portly, natty, sophisticated Hollywood lion named Zamba, who looks as though he came from F.A.O. Schwarz and waddles like a middle-aged millionaire stuffed with Chateaubriand and Trancopal-what's more, while on location in Kenya he nibbled daintily on breast of chicken and disdainfully refused to associate with those poor, backward, underdeveloped African lions...
Brazil's Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello-"Chatô" to Brazilians-has fallen on sad times. He was the builder and sole commander of an $85 million, 58-company empire that included 31 newspapers, twelve television stations, 22 radio stations, four magazines, a news agency, two pharmaceutical laboratories and three coffee-and-cattle ranches. He crusaded to push Brazil into the air age, with a campaign that dotted the nation with aviation clubs. He built child-care centers all over Brazil, bullied friends and enemies into filling a $15 million Sāo Paulo art museum with...
...prosperity he knows where he wants to spend his holiday money. Last week in Blackpool a Lancashire wool merchant summed up the average Englishman's loyalty to the place. He had been to the Riviera last year and had his fill of incomprehensible French entertainment and Chateaubriand with sauce bearnaise. "We couldn't get fish 'n' chips." he murmured, "and the steak was all covered with bloody glue...
...years, this College has just carried the system of coddling athletes to a nefarious extreme. Whose blood does not boil just a little when he sits down to his chili con carne at the House and thinks of those husky behemoths in their ivied retreat masticating on quantities of chateaubriand and Double Lamb chops...