Word: garlic
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...Baritone Robert Merrill stands on his head. Where Mickey Wright will hit a few off the practice tee, Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias gargles champagne and does a belly dance. And for a preperformance pick-me-up, singers will have none of that sissy business of pep talks. They eat garlic...
...occasion of the 45th anniversary of Rumania's Communist Party. Totally unexpected and unheralded, it was a stinging attack on the Soviet Union that ran the gamut from Lenin through the Stalin era to the current Russian dispute with Red China. Tucked in, as pungently as the garlic in a Rumanian mititei sausage, was the expected plug for "nationalistic Communism" that Ceausescu has made popular in Eastern Europe...
...Palace, a cozy confection dating from King Carol's day. The neighboring Ambassador is newer but less colorful, though the city's restaurants make up for that. True to Rumania's Latin inheritance, they offer ciorba (a minestrone with sour cream) and mititei (diminutive salami as garlic-laden as any in "Little Italy"). A bow to the West takes in mamaliga-cornmeal porridge that resembles Russian kasha-which is often accompanied by sarmale, stuffed cabbage Hungarian-style. Unlike most Latins, Rumanians are not great winebibbers. Their national drink, tuicā, is as clear and catastrophic as Yugoslav...
...high fashion has long been: to make a point, exaggerate. This was never more so than last week in Florence and Rome, where Italy's top designers displayed their newest spring and summer fashions. What had been finely chopped shallots in Paris suddenly became whole cloves of garlic. So the little-girl look is in? The Italians turned out their models in white stockings and low-cut boys' shoes. Dresses are above the knee? Why not halfway up the thigh? The bare, bare look is right for the evening? Then loop one-shoulder gowns down to the waist...
...antipathy is mutual. Koreans, still smarting from 35 years of harsh colonial rule by imperial Japan, regard their former masters as a cruel, crafty race bent on reasserting economic domination of their country. To most Japanese, on the other hand, Koreans are senjin-subhumans-personified by the garlic-reeking Korean thugs who rule Tokyo's underworld. Such acid antagonisms are not easily neutralized in an Asia rent by revolution and rising nationalism. Last week, nonetheless, Japan and South Korea took a long step toward amicable relations and genuine co-prosperity...