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...Mexico has become what one tourist industry executive calls "the travel bargain of the century." Says Bronnie Kupris, president of Manhattan's Asti Mexico Tours: "Our volume is up 400% over last year." New York-based Alexander Charters sold 2,100 airline seats to Mexico from January to Easter last year; so far this year, halfway through that period, the company has sold almost 6,000 seats...
...veal. Most notable are a classic Sicilian stuffed breast and a roast, vitello tartufato, with truffle sauce, and damn the expense. Holiday favorites include Christmas turkey, which the Italians devoured long before the Pilgrims, and is served here with hot fruits; and milk-fed baby lamb, traditionally tendered at Easter, accompanied by egg and lemon sauce. A savory pork roast in pizza dough was invented by Bettoja's husband Angelo, who also prescribed the wines throughout. There are surprisingly few game dishes, but Angelo did contribute a rustic pheasant pate. Desserts include a chocolate and amaretti pie from Parma...
...Significant Parallel for sharp-eyed moviegoers to discern: that now-famous elongated finger stretching down from the heavens to point at a human finger reaching up from the earth. Remind you of any famous creation scenes on chapel ceilings? One wonders: since E. T. 's last-minute Easter-like recovery conveniently leaves the door open for a sequel, can we expect to see the little alien in his next adventure merrily waddling along the surface of some suburban swimming pool, or turning Elliot's bedtime glass of water into something with a little more punch...
...River by motorized rubber raft, sailed 3,000 miles along the Northwest Passage in the whaler and camped for the four-month Arctic night at Ellesmere Island. They reached the North Pole by snowmobile just before midnight last April 10 and celebrated with well-chilled champagne and a chocolate Easter...
...February 1980. Swift recalls, the students began to take better care of the hostages, improving their food and letting some outside visitors in Two weeks before Easter, she and Katherine Koob, the other woman detained in captivity, were put together again. Recalling their counter-terrorism training which instructs hostages to establish personal relationships with their captors--the two began talking to the students and trying to teach them English. But, Swift says, they found their guards wary and "well aware that we were trying to subvert them...