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...returning until the man has settled the bill. b) She offers the man a cigar, quarrels with the waiter's addition, pays the check from a roll of 50s and makes a knowledgeable remark about the vicissitudes of the Baltimore Colts. c) She extracts from her ice cream dish a fragment of broken glass brought along for just this purpose. She and her companion complain loudly about foreign objects in the food, and both exit in a huff, leaving the check unpaid on the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...come home for his family--not for his stepmother about to marry the low-rent local politician Curtis Peavey, whose goons keep rearranging his caps--but to join his sweetheart Catherine, a woman he may or may not be married to. Stay away, she warns: "You called me deep-dish Southern plastic in a national publication!" She is a lesbian now, she maintains, having taken up with the bisexual Marcelline. Chet considers this only vaguely through a menthol cocaine haze. Then he nails his hand to her door...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: The Caribbean Syndicalist Novel | 11/8/1978 | See Source »

...match had hardly begun when Korchnoi accused Karpov's assistants of sending the champion coded instructions inside snacks that he nibbled at during games. Complained Korchnoi: "A yogurt after 20 moves could mean 'We instruct you to decline a draw,' or a dish of marinated quails' eggs could mean 'Play knight to knight five at once.' " Thereafter, officials limited the champion's snacks to a single flavor of yogurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Checkmate in Baguio City | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...aesthetic highlight is a bowl of bouillon on which float three yellow-eyed ducklings made of egg white. The culinary triumph is a sweet-and-sour fresh-water mandarin fish, confected with ham, onion, potato, sausage, mushroom and ginger. It is sculptured to resemble a squirrel, hence the dish is announced in advance by one interpreter as "tree rat," provoking preprandial nausea among several F.F.s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: China Says: Ni hao! | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...anyone really believes that Huntington, et. al., were "wrong" in encouraging U.S. destruction in Vietnam, it should be obvious that that caricature of a "war" was the inevitable result of political-economic theories and values which Huntington and scores of other professors here believe in and regularly dish out as gospel truth in classes every day, unchallenged by students. Such professors' inability to see that socialism has a fundamental and genuine appeal to oppressed peoples everywhere, and that privilege and wealth are detested by the poor, blinds them to the essential justness of "revolutionary" movements in the Third World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huntington, Etc. | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

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