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...More efficient," says Baldrige. Asparagus and very crisp bacon may be eaten with the fingers, and salad may be cut with a knife, she ordains. (The old stricture against cutting salad with a knife was meant to spare the hostess's silver-plated blade, which could be corroded by vinegar dressing.) But it still is "heresy to cut spaghetti." Somewhat conservatively, Baldrige advises that fried chicken "should be eaten with the fingers only on such occasions as picnics, barbecues, boat rides and other informal outdoor gatherings." As for caviar, "never take more than a teaspoonful, or you will have everyone...

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

...least 15 minutes behind Adrian and the same amount of time in front of Johnnie, Mike and the other two. It seemed an interminably long way to the top. I was getting cold, dressed only in shorts, t-shirt, down vest, poncho and wool cap. I hadn't eaten anything that morning and very little the day before, which was beginning to worry me. But worse still, my shoe came untied...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Hell and High Water | 11/21/1978 | See Source »

...might get it back. Maybe, then, you can go home again--but what if you can't remember home, or what it was, like? What if you can't remember when, where, or if you were married? In a minor key, this translates into not remembering if you have eaten, eating three meals, and throwing up on a spotless Abe Beame. In a major key, it means insisting the man who is your father really died in the Boston subway fire of 1942. Either way, it's a hell of a note...

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

Salmonella poisoning is transmitted when a carrier infected with the disease touches food eaten by other people. UHS is currently testing Winthrop House dining room employees for salmonella poisoning, Wacker said...

Author: By Ronald D. Ryan, | Title: Salmonella Ravages Winthrop | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

...turbine envious. At 41 he has published his twelfth novel, an adrenal tour of Manhattan, Dublin and parts unknown. The title character is a grief-racked, unshaven drifter who caroms around in search of trouble. The quest is professional: Isaac Sidel is first deputy police commissioner, a plainclothesman eaten by dreams and ravaged by a tape worm fastened to his entrails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reviving the Story-Telling Art | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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