Word: feastings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another, more public afternoon in Mocksville, N.C., at a Masonic picnic, Helms is not asked to account for his future. His speech is scheduled between Ferris wheel rides and an all-you-can-eat feast of baked ham and lemon pie. Supporters mob him all day. He is happy...
Each August the residents of the hamlet of Baan Nabua, 30 miles south of the Mekong River center of Nakhon Phanom, stop all work and open their stilted houses to visitors for a celebration. Government officials gather for a feast and an all-night spectacle that features classical Thai dancing and Kung Fu movies. The holiday is called the Stop the Gunfire Festival: it commemorates the government's success in quelling a Communist insurgency that once infested most of Thailand's 16 northeastern provinces. This year the eight-man band that played popular tunes at Baan Nabua...
...movable feast moved on in the 1960s, and the hotel grew musty and passé. Earlier this month, when the hotel's owners suddenly began hacking away at the carved wood and plaster walls on the ground floor, less than a quarter of the guest rooms were occupied. The 200 guests had every right to be startled by the demolition. But from the band of local preservationists, who fought a losing three-day legal battle to stop the demolition, the shock was a mockery: they learned in May that the owners planned to strip the 26-story Biltmore...
...them being food and wine, he and his wife set off on a recent Saturday evening for a Hemingway-style movable feast at Harborplace. It started with a drink and half a dozen North Carolina oysters at Shuckers Raw Bar in the Light Street Pavilion, followed by soft-shell crab par-migiano at the Big Cheese. Dinner was at the Taverna Athena, a Greek bistro in the Pratt Street Pavilion. Afterward came coffee and dessert at Tandoor and a nightcap at the Phillips Harborplace restaurant, where a banjo band plays until 11 p.m. "I never get tired of Harborplace," Rouse...
...perhaps in fruit carried by a tourist returning from Hawaii. But though the flies are not indigenous to the mainland, they lay their eggs in at least 200 U.S.-grown fruits and vegetables, including such California staples as plums, peaches, apricots and nectarines. Maggots hatch from the eggs and feast away until the fruit drops to the ground. Because the fruit fly's depredations make produce virtually unsalable, and usually inedible, California quickly mobilized-spraying trees from the ground, destroying fruit and even releasing sterilized male Medflies to reduce the number of offspring...