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...banquet at night. While Americans watching on television get the idea that it is some kind of folk festival, it is not quite so hearty. The huge hall engulfs the guests, much like China itself. Nixon is a dim figure with Chou, nibbling at his shark's fin dish and supping his almond junket. Pat's red dress is a drop of warm blood in the gray...
Wodehouse's comedies take place in a Never-neverland of fin-de-siecle English aristocracy, where a young man like Bertram Wooster has nothing to do but go to his club, visit his aunts in the country, and fall in and out of love, a world in which the greatest crime is to knock off a bobby's hat during Race Week at Oxford, and the greatest calamity is to find oneself engaged--a sort of Importance of Being Earnest world, but without Wilde's malice. Though Wodehouse has other sets of characters who live in this world, none have...
...awkward silence, his mother enters, sizes up the situation with a glance, and begins to look upset over the impending battle. But the brothers can't keep from chuckling at Laurent's embarrassment, Mom smiles, and finally Dad's anger melts as they all join in laughing together....FIN...
...sultans were understandably fin, icky about their companions. Concubines to whom they tossed a preliminary handkerchief of approval were known as gozde, literally "in the eye." The handful of gdzde who reached the canopied royal bed by way of secret passages became ikbal, or "bedded...
...bred it with a normal mink. After nine years of inbreeding, Hoglund had produced a new strain: a deeply spotted mink with a strong resemblance to the jaguar, which has been hunted to near extinction for its luxurious pelt. Manhattan furrier Reiss & Fabrizio has received the first of the "Fin-Jaguar" furs from the Danish firm Keppo, and has the coats on sale (at $5,500 to $9,500 v. $8,000 to $13,000 for real jaguar). Buyers will be able to wear "jaguar" without having to worry about contributing to the cat's extinction...