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Touring in Europe these days also leaves more to individual choice. One boon for free spirits is the hotel voucher plan, available throughout Scandinavia and in Switzerland, by which travelers can choose in advance from hundreds of participating inns and hotels; a tourist is thus free to arrive with only...
Overseas visitors are shrewd shoppers. Manhattan's Windows on the World restaurant reports that they gobble up oysters and clams (as part of a $19.50 prix fixe dinner), which are much more expensive in Europe. Says Nick Lapole, director of public relations for Mamma Leone's restaurant in Manhattan: "The...
The $35 prix fixe seemed a bit steep, but the menu sounded impressive enough-breast of capon cordon bleu, pommes rissolées, bombe glacée-and the comic booked for the evening was strictly top banane: Jimmy Carter. For the first time in the 64 years that the...
As a journalist, Demarest has savored vicariously the indulgences of the moneyed, covering such gathering places of the wealthy as Manhattan's Palace Restaurant, where he attended a $500-per-head prix fixe dinner; the Duke of Bedford's bashes; and sundry Sotheby sales, where the rich auction...
. . . explosante/fixe . . . is scored for eight instruments, each equipped with floor microphones, plus an electronic supergadget called the Halaphone. In the first performance of the piece by the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, the Halaphone not only transmuted the instrumental sounds electronically, but sped those sounds around the concert hall via...