Word: feasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that can be found anywhere in the world. Patience Gray, a well-known food writer in England, tells us, "In the last 20 years I have shared the fortunes of a stone carver . . . Marble determined where, how and among whom we lived; always in primitive conditions." Thus did they feast and fast in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia. Honey from a Weed (Harper & Row; 374 pages; $25) is a rich and idiosyncratic ramble through those festivals and harvests, and it makes perhaps the most enticing book of the year. There are detailed recipes for such local delicacies as grapes...
...Bowdoin contest has turned into an annual Thanksgiving feast for the racquetwomen...
More than three centuries ago, the Pilgrims staved off the terrors of the wilderness and gave thanks for a feast...
...Soviets had a taste of the outside world during the era of detente, it was meager fare compared with the highly seasoned feast the Chinese have come to enjoy. Sidewalk bookstalls in provincial Sichuan now offer readers the autobiography of Archcapitalist Lee Iacocca, selected writings of Sigmund Freud, Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue and lavishly illustrated handbooks on how to apply eye makeup. Former students of English gather at twilight by the banks of Chengdu's Jinjiang river to practice their fractured grammar. The flashing sign above the dance floor at Guangzhou's luxury Baiyun Hotel actually reads WELCOME...
FAMILY Business is a film Freudians should see. Between the burglaries, the mother's alcoholism, the father's temper, and the daughter's incestuous desires for her brother, the film is a psychoanalytic feast...