Word: croissant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Exploiting West Germany's permissive judicial system, accused terrorists and their lawyers have disrupted court proceedings and have even planned new acts of terror from inside their prison cells. Some 70 radical lawyers are suspected of aiding terrorists. Most celebrated may be Klaus Croissant, 47, Baader's attorney, who is believed to have carried messages from gang members inside prison to those outside. Arrested last July, Croissant jumped bail and fled to France, where, after nearly three months underground, he was caught by police in late September. He now faces possible extradition to West Germany...
...Europe, he patrols four floors of highly variegated merchandise. His cheapest item is a 5? cork, his most expensive a $500 copper pot suitable for an entire sheep. Between these terminals is a treasury of the familiar and exotic. Prosaic pepper mills and soup bowls huddle with sophisticated croissant cutters and the French Cuisinart Food Processor, a $160 Rube Goldberg contraption for slicing and pulverizing just about anything. No device, no matter how arcane or costly, sits around for long...
...Square's equivalent of the Parisian May riots, in April of 1970, I came upon a Proustian looking youth contemplating the pastry in the shattered window of the French pastry shop C'est Si Bon on Dunster Street. After many moments of intense scrutiny he decided on a golden croissant which he carefully picked from out of the broken glass...
...tarte au fraises, on a hot afternoon, you might have a citron pressee ($.50) made with lemons squeezed there in front of you. With a Babu au Rhum doused with extra rum and sugar, you might have a cup of tea; with a Napoleon, a cup of American coffee. Croissant and French coffee are as dependable as De Gaulle's amour propre...