Word: chickening
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...lobster pizza ($25) by the bar. House cocktails include $12 Ginger Cosmos and “Bajitos” (Mojitos with a basil twist). The upstairs restaurant is where Boston’s older elite dines on Porcini Crusted Sea Scallops ($16) and Organic Amish Free-Range Chicken...
...Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov (who was seated at Diana's right), Architect I.M. Pei, Explorer Jacques Cousteau, Artists Helen Frankenthaler and David Hockney, and Nancy's cat pack, Jerry Zipkin and Betsy Bloomingdale. The menu, in keeping with royal preferences, was light: lobster mousseline with Maryland crab followed by glazed chicken capsicum and a dessert of peach sorbet. The President and the Prince each was to give a toast; but the Prince, complaining of jet lag, sat down without actually offering one. He then stood up, saying sheepishly, "Excuse me, I've forgotten the toast...
...Reynolds, in taking over Nabisco, have made dramatic moves that will change the structure of those companies. Philip Morris, which had earlier acquired Miller Brewing and Seven-Up, will now become the largest U.S. consumer-products manufacturer, with sales of more than $23 billion. Reynolds, owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Del Monte foods, will be close behind. Its revenues will exceed $19 billion. Since both cigarettes and food are sold in grocery stores and supermarkets and both depend heavily on strong consumer marketing, the businesses seem compatible...
...every dragon, lion or bear, there is an emblem that seems to have no ferocity at all. A modern officer might not wish to appear before his men with a pair of enormous formalized rabbit ears stuck to his helmet. One might as well pretend to be a chicken. But not in 17th century Japan, where rabbits symbolized long life and virility and were a favored helmet motif. (Americans see an old man in the moon; Japanese saw the silhouette of a rabbit with mortar and pestle, pounding out the elixir of life.) Likewise, the clam is peaceable...
...remember slipping into the backseat of a black Audi, one of the first personal cars to hit the Chinese market. I remember going with my pre-school class on a field trip to the first Kentucky Fried Chicken that opened in Shanghai. I remember putting on my best dress to take my first airplane ride on the new jets of the fledgling domestic airline industry...