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...Terrail's Tour, the menu is not all that commands attention. As Sacha Guitry, the French playwright, observed, "You go to La Tour d'Argent to dine. Once there, you look" at the scene. Shirley Temple Black, unable to flag a cab on a rainy day, was conveyed to the restaurant by gallant gendarmes in a Black Maria. Terrail also relates that a distinguished Roman Catholic prelate, Monsignor Fernand Maillet, loved late dinners at La Tour. "As he was obliged by ecclesiastical rules to stop eating at midnight so that he could conduct early morning Mass," Terrail says...
Johns and Rauschenberg, then, and Oldenburg, and some Warhol, a good deal of Lichtenstein and a few pieces by Rosenquist and (surprisingly enough, in view of his calamitous recent work) by Jim Dine: such are the survivors. The losers are more numerous...
...phrases it, "without constraints, without procedure and with an open heart." The nine heads of government will meet alone in a Copenhagen exposition hall, with only their translators. To achieve intimacy, as well as to preserve secrecy, even their dinners will be small affairs; the heads of government will dine in one room while the Foreign Ministers eat in another. There will be no formal agenda-for this will be what the French call an informal, "fireside" summit-merely a list of topics. Among them...
...talking with a guy from B&G last year when a pretty girl walked by. "The things I missed when I was young," he said, with what can only be described as a soulful leer. "When I was your age you had to wine and dine a girl for a year before you could get into her. But today! You just take her down to the Square for a hot dog and then back...
They have neither long experience nor large expense accounts. If they wine and dine legislators, it is on potluck dinners of hamburgers or spaghetti. But after two years of work in the California Capitol in Sacramento, members of the University of California Student Lobby have influenced the allocation of well over $8,000,000 and won the respect of once skeptical lawmakers...