Word: glac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prepare them. In Jean Santeuil, Proust wrote of the lobster set before Mlle. de Réveillon, reason enough to provide the formula for homard à l'Américaine. Albertine pleads for skate with black butter; King delivers it. Marcel wrote affectionately of éclairs, marrons glacés, strawberry juice, orangeade, chocolate cake, oysters, petite marmite, roast goose ("superbly limbed and shining with gravy"), hare a l'Allemande and venison that was "dark, brown-fleshed, hot and soused [with red wine and cognac], over which the red-currant jelly has laid a cool, sweet surface." These...
...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 White House Correspondents' Association has been inviting Presidents to its annual all-in-fun dinner, however, the incumbent did not show or send his wife or his Vice President to fill...
...Glacé Blondes. The Grand Prix circuit is the class act in racing. Unlike stock-car drivers, Grand Prix racers are rich sybarites who zip through the industrialized world in futuristic "Formula I" nodules of fiber glass. Theirs is a life of death and daring where excess baggage means two cars and a couple of glacé blondes. "This is the only gentlemen's sport left," observed a Caracas businessman. "Polo and tennis are such a bore...
...past 50 years have hinged on Princess Aurora while Prince Florimund never danced at all. In this production Nureyev's prince has half a dozen solos. They are uniformly pleasant-if unaccountably confined to traditional danse d'école figures and Nureyev executes them to glacéed perfection...
...sufficiently long period of fasting you might again really hunger after those beautiful books, beautiful pictures, beautiful countries that you now skim over with the lack of appetite of someone who has spent all New Year's Day making a round of visits, each complete with marrons glac...