Word: chez
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...America's reluctant guest MANUEL NORIEGA spent his time since 1992 chez Miami's Metropolitan Correctional Center? Boning up on pop culture, it seems. In At Random, the in-house magazine of Random House, which is publishing his memoirs, Manny, as his co-perps call him, says he is familiar with "those all-important staples of American culture, the Wild Horse Saloon and line-dancing on TNN." His bedtime reading: the Bible and Deepak Chopra, as well as People and Men's Health...
...Martha, 54, so much more influential than, say, Alice Waters, the Chez Panisse chef who transformed restaurant cooking? It's because Marthaland is a one-stop shop, for everything from bed to kitchen to garden, where one thing stylishly builds on another. She pulls all this off with total earnestness (except when she is paid to be ironic by American Express, lining her swimming pool with a mosaic of cut-up credit cards). Otherwise, she stays in character: that of a demanding schoolmistress who will be coming around to test for trace elements of bottled dressing in your salade nicoise...
...glimmer of history is strongest in Reardon's portrait of Waters, proprietor of the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse. In the 60's, as part of Berkeley's student radical movement, she cooked for her fellow activists and published recipes in a leftist tabloid. She opened her restaurant in 1971. A $5 meal included main dish, wine, salad, and a showing of a Marcel Pagnol film...
Though in the intervening decades Waters has tried to maintain her civic ties. Chez Panisse has gone from struggling bistro to acclaimed restaurant, where the prix-fixe meal now runs about $65. Waters has even published a series of Chez Panisse cookbooks. And while she still promotes social change, that change is now primarily culinary; after entertaining Bill Clinton in 1993, Waters wrote to him: "We can mobilize a small army of restaurateurs across the country who share a common belief that the choices we make about what we eat can transform our society." Guerilla restaurateurs...
Inevitably, Calogero and Sonny are drawn together when the boy sees Sonny bearing the gun after a "parking space dispute" ends up in murder. After Calogero refuses to name him to the police, he is slowly incorporated into the life and doings at Chez Bippy. Lorenzo wisely tells his son that he did a "good thing for a bad man," but warns him away. But after witnessing the glamour that encompasses Sonny's world, the rapidly aging youth insists, "The working man is a sucker...