Word: cosmopolitans
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...Greek on a basalt statue base found at Alexandria is a reference to "Antony, the Great, lover without peer." The text, says Higgs, contains a pun relating to the "Association of Inimitable Livers," which Plu- tarch wrote was a group established by the high-living Antony and Cleopatra in cosmopolitan Alexandria. Antony the inimitable liver became Antony the inimitable lover, both in the brothels of Alexandria and in Cleopatra...
...week, as I heard the story, he took a different mistress out to dinner, always dining on the same night with the same woman at the same restaurant. Thursday meant Babette and Le Cochon D'Or, or somesuch. Tuesday meant Francoise and Le Bistro de L'Ennuie. This was cosmopolitan but drearily bureaucratic polygamy, and I cannot help wondering if the women did not get terribly bored, not just with the Great Man, but with the schedule. Might they not have called one another up and tried to swap nights and restaurants, just to get a change of menu...
...intelligence at the country's top research labs. A new class of storytelling geniuses, men who can enrapture your evenings with puzzle after enthralling puzzle, are emerging. It's all starting to feel like a Golden Age, a 21st century version of Hollywood in the 40's, only more cosmopolitan...
...became the executive chef at the renowned La Caravelle, the owners omitted any mention in the menu of ingredients like yuzu, a tart citrus fruit, and shiso, a mint-like herb, because the exotic terms intimidated diners. Today, at Ono's own restaurant, Sono, waiters proudly tout the yuzu cosmopolitan and shiso margarita...
...surprising about Mishima is that his increasing political fanaticism barely tainted his artistic vision and judgment. The final novel in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy, for my money his greatest work, was finished the week before he sliced open his belly with a sword. Mishima is among the most cosmopolitan of Japanese novelists, although his suicide tended to reinforce our stereotypes about exoticism, fanaticism and general weirdness...