Word: coq
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbia, Swarthmore, Yale, Brown, Bowdoin and Harvard -- all of which have accepted him for next fall -- have been urging him to come. Bowdoin flew him to Brunswick, Me., gratis, for a two-day love feast for minority prospects, complete with a dance at the Afro-American house and a coq au vin dinner at a professor's home. With the May 1 decision date just days away, any further conversation with his suitors would only add to Owens' confusion: "Everybody has been pulling me in different ways," he frets...
HOTTEST NEWS The bistro. The food world seems to concur that this traditional favorite is back in style, but there is little agreement about what the word means. To some it stands for eateries serving such traditional French fare as coq au vin, pot-au-feu and gigot. To others a bistro is merely a cafe with quick and simple food, much of it indistinguishable from California cuisine. Symbolic of the confusion is the representation in a new book, American Bistro, by Irena Chalmers and Friends (Contemporary; $35). Cited are Kansas City's high-style American Restaurant and the posh...
Though the park will have the Walt Disney touch, from Fantasyland to Tomorrowland, some French accents are expected. Just as restaurants in the Tokyo park feature sushi and tempura served by kimono-clad waitresses, the fare at the Paris facility is likely to include croissants and coq au vin. Eisner insists that the park will be "consistent with French culture...
Manufacturers estimate the U.S. bike- clothing market at $30 million and say it is growing by 25% annually. The suppliers include more than 50 companies, from Japan's Descente and France's Le Coq Sportif to America's Protogs, Cannondale and L.L. Bean. Some 60% of the 6,500 bicycle shops in the U.S. now carry clothing next to the tubes and pumps, as compared with only about one-third ten years...
About 80 guests, a quarter of them male, gather in the clubhouse for cocktails (Perrier and bitters), then dinner (coq au vin, 221 calories). Conversation immediately turns to food. "Frozen Milky Way," intones East Coast Type A. A short, wistful silence. "Frozen Haagen-Dazs," invokes Marilynn. All furiously chew their detoxifying greens. "But," says Marilynn, "everyone knows that frozen things have no calories, right?" The table breaks up laughing...