Word: dished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashionable restaurants such as Manhattan's "21" Club and Washington's Duke Zeibert's, an inordinate number of customers appear to be feasting-or fasting, as the case may be-on the same simply prepared dish. Fish if it happens to be Monday night, beef on Tuesday, lamb if Wednesday. Peculiar? Not to these diet devotees. They are merely following the latest popular weight-loss regimen: the Scarsdale Diet...
Furthermore, the portion was discouragingly small. The dish's one saving grace was an interesting crunchy bed of wild rice, chestnuts, raisins and almonds...
Next to the entrees, most anything would have tasted pretty good. Such was the case with the succulent side dish of baby carrots lightly cooked in butter and tender cauliflower...
...startling to see how fast and with what authority the Guitar's lessons were absorbed by other artists in Paris, such as Henri Laurens and Archipenko. Laurens's Dish with Grapes (1916-18), with its majestic rotation of painted wood planes around the calm central core of the stemmed fruit dish, is surely one of the masterpieces of the 20th century, and all the fresher for being little known. Jacques Lipchitz's flat, frontal cubist sculptures, like Detachable Figure, Seated Musician (1915), are perhaps less impressive than this; yet they have about them a gaiety and precision...
...Kiel. First the politicians routinely re-elected Helmut Kohl party chairman, despite grumbles that Kohl will be no match for Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in next year's elections. After that, to stir support for C.D.U. candidates in upcoming European Parliament elections, a novel buffet of dishes from other European Community nations: smoked salmon from Denmark, Netherlands herring, Italian wine and, Gott im Himmel, the French dish-or dishes-three dancers who pranced about onstage wearing only G strings and nonaligned ostrich feathers. Kohl diplomatically said nothing about the surprise entree. But some other C.D.U.ers did. Harrumphed...