Word: filet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rolled up outside the swank Inter-continental Hotel in Geneva, where they were met by a cordon of gray leather-jacketed Swiss police and platoons of reporters and photographers. Inside, the oil ministers lived like the modern-day kings they have become. They dined on sumptuous meals that included filet de truite fumée, poussin de Bresse aux morilles and coeur de Charolais róti aux herbes...
Haig's ideas of the world rise to the surface in bursts of singular intensity, punctuated by his high-pitched laughter. A few days ago, the Secretary devoured a filet with the gusto of a field commander and downed a good claret with the finesse of an ambassador; he concluded that his foreign policy was in pretty good shape but admitted that his Washington policy needed some repairs. He sees the Soviets as even more concerned than the U.S. about nuclear war. The creaking and groaning heard round the world (nowhere louder than in Washington) as the U.S. changes...
Such is the cultural currency of Hollywood that anyone who can read his mail is called a man of letters, and the person who knows that filet de sole isn't a French disco group joins the intellectual elite. By these standards-and some higher-John Sayles is a Renaissance man. At 25, an O. Henry short-story award; at 28, a National Book Award nomination; at 29, critical praise and a measure of commercial success for Return of the Secaucus Seven, a $60,000 film he wrote, produced, directed, edited and acted in. Lately, on weekends when...
Lunch at 1 p.m. in the White House second-floor dining room is a wooing session with representatives of 20 Hispanic organizations. As usual, Reagan dines with gusto: a rich shellfish soup, filet mignon, artichoke salad, California red wine and fruit compote. He assures his guests that five Hispanic appointments to the sub-Cabinet are "in the pipeline." By 2:15 p.m. he is back at his desk, making phone calls and signing papers...
...more celebrated restaurateurs, The Four Seasons trio present their recipes, and raisons d'être, in succinct and practical form. Elevating basic family dishes to haute cuisine, their prescriptions range from the basic soufflé and chicken pot pie to such palate pleasers as cold peach soup, filet of pompano with citrus fruits and pistachio nuts, and filet of veal with crabmeat and wild mushrooms -capped perhaps with a topless chocolate cake or a walnut tart...