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Robert J. Kiely, Professor of English and Master of Adams House, admitted Adams's food was better than that at other Houses where he'd eaten. He attributed this difference to a "friendly relationship" between students and dining hall workers...
Within a few days of their arrival in Washington as part of an orientation program to learn "survival skills," the students had toured supermarkets, drugstores and department stores and eaten at a fast-food restaurant. Said Institute Director Robert Fox: "They didn't seem terribly wild about the food." The scholars saw a bit of TV. Said Chemical Engineer Hsü Hsien, after seeing his first U.S. commercials: "I enjoy watching them. It is a sign of American culture, isn't it?" The visitors were also introduced to the mysteries of Western pantyhose by Newsweek Correspondent Mary Lord...
...buildings, designed in partnership with his wife Denise Scott Brown, John Rauch and Stephen Izenour, are more restrained in their use of Pop motifs than his polemics. As California's Charles Moore remarks, "Venturi has celebrated McDonald's Golden Arches, but I'd take bets he's never eaten a Big Mac." He has built no big commissions, so his intentions read best in his houses, most recently in a ski lodge at Aspen, Colo. It is a stew of historical references: "An Art Nouveau grandfather clock with arts-and-crafts overtones," says Venturi, and overlaid with suggestions of tree...
...gift: a spiky cactus plant. It was festooned like a Christmas tree, with candy, chewing gum and junk food that Foreman had just proposed banning from sale during school lunch hours. Today only a few of the trimmings remain on the tree. The rest, reports Foreman, have been eaten by her sugar-loving staff...
...rolling in only after oil prices quintupled in 1973-74-and sometimes give the impression that they think it will not last. Finance Minister Mohamed Aboul-Kheil, a diminutive bureaucrat who talks as if Saudi Arabia were in need of foreign aid, argues that the surpluses will soon be eaten up by the costs of building an industrial society at home. Meanwhile, he insists, the country must keep its money in short-term investments so that it can bring it home as soon as it is needed. Many Western experts doubt that Saudi Arabia will ever find productive domestic uses...