Word: entr
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...private money and, to a much larger extent, public funds. Nearly all the deals have a common connection: Jake Butcher, 46, a Knoxville banking magnate and twice a candidate for Governor. Banker Bert Lance, Butcher's friend and Jimmy Carter's ill-starred budget chief, made the entrées necessary to arrange for $43.5 million in federal subsidies and talked Egypt into participating. Another Butcher friend, Jesse Barr, who was convicted in 1976 of bank fraud, was later hired by the developers of property fronting the fair as their chief financial consultant. Butcher's own bank...
DIED. René Clair, 82, pre-eminent French director who used surrealism and satire to limn the absurdities of human behavior in such classic films as Paris Qui Don (1923), Entr'acte (1924), Le Million (1931) and A Nous la Liberte(1932); of a heart attack; in Neuilly, France. Clair made several English-language movies in the U.S. during World War II, including I Married a Witch (1942) and It Happened Tomorrow (1943), before returning to France to direct films, write novels and in 1973 produce Orphée et Eurydice at the Paris Opéra. Clair once...
...Culinary Olympics, which have been held since 1895, are the World Series of commercial cookery. This year's competition attracted almost 800 top cooks from some 40 countries. Entries-and entrées-were judged not only for deliciousness but also for nutritiousness, economy and skill of preparation. (The French, while masters of no-expense-spared gourmet cooking, have never come in better than third at Frankfurt; they sulked at home this year.) The first U.S. team entered the Olympics in 1956 and got shut out. But in 1968 the Yank chefs were able to cop 16 golds, more...
...Wolfe has returned to his seat. The new collection of articles and cartoons reveals the author as social commentator and trend observer, ogling the pathetic goons and trendies who inhabit America. The centerpiece of the collection is an article that appeared in Esquire last year called "Entr'actes and Canapes," a series of short takes and pot shots about or at assorted trends, events and people of the seventies. Wolfe snipes at everything and everyone: the digital calculator, designer jeans, Roots, Jonestown, Woody Allen and the fall of South Vietnam...
...Bemba society would collapse into chaos without beer (a major source of nourishment as well as a ceremonial beverage). Consuming Passions may not make consumers appreciate the Chinese taste for sea slugs or the African appetite for insects. But most of its hors d'oeuvres and entrées will make any reader grateful that man does not-and never did-live by bread alone...