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...like the fattest casts of all. "Le Bec-Fin, please," I told the Bell Atlantic operator. (Quick bit of background: Le Bec-Fin is Georges Perrier's legendary hotspot, a Philadelphia institution. Often mentioned in surveys as the best restaurant in America - bar none - it had been booked solid for days, primarily by GOP lobbyists, governors and congressmen...
They keep their promises, these Bec-Fin people. Precisely 15 minutes later, we were seated in the salmon-and-gilt main dining room. The place was packed with men in high-end suits and women in cashmere sweater sets, and I experienced a moment of panic, wishing I'd had a chance to pick up my pearls before I'd set out. Not to worry; the staff were warm and welcoming, even to the underdressed, and the fat cats were meowing and purring too much to notice...
After a brief perusal of the biggest menu I have ever seen, we listened to the longest list of specials (is that what they're called at Le Bec-Fin?) I've ever heard. Another 15 minutes later, the descriptions finally ended, and we got down to the serious business at hand: Deciding whether the man sitting directly across from us was, in fact, Oklahoma governor Frank Keating - or merely a clever imposter...
...value of the "1900" show is bound to bring up such questions--although one cannot be sure that curator Robert Rosenblum was eager to raise them. Most of the fashionable art of our fin-de-siecle is just as lousy as the worst stuff here, and done at a far lower level of skill. Memento mori, and send not to know for whom the bell tolls: cracked though it is, it tolls...
...Dutta, the new Miss Universe 2. Change for a fin 3. Minor player 4. One of the "Two Virgins" 5. Suffix with dull or drunk 6. Winner of the Dominican presidential election 7. He established the organization that is taking over U.P.I. 8. Subsidiary of this company makes 5-Across 9. Buddy of the Clintons 10. Geraint's lady 11. Isthmus constructions 12. One of two kinds of U.S.N.A. grads 17. Again, in music 19. Like a noted Beethoven minuet 20. Baseball's Garciaparra 21. Wanderer 22. The FDA approved it in 1987 23. Gidget portrayer Sandra 24. La Cage...