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...August Walker Pelton regales the group with an anecdote about Princess Caroline of Monaco. "She tells me," he confides, "that when anyone in their family has elbows on the table, her grandmother jabs them with a fork." In the lull that follows, Bridget Dunham chews meditatively on her water goblet, picks her teeth, then dives under the table after her napkin. Garo Tokat loses a battle with his artichoke, which rockets off the plate and onto his lap. Tiffany Field, her ivory dress askew, is so absorbed in her food that her long blond tresses marinate in the vinaigrette...
...triangle. On each side there are 13 place settings (a reference to the Last Supper, with Christ and his twelve Disciples). The 39 settings commemorate mythic or real women, goddesses and culture heroines, from the Bona Dea of prehistory to Georgia O'Keeffe. Each consists of a porcelain goblet, porcelain cutlery and a large plate, all reposing on ornamental cloth runners. Most of the plates bear designs based on the female genital organs, though one of them, representing English Composer Ethel Smyth, is in the shape of a grand piano, and another, commemorating the black abolitionist Sojourner Truth, depicts...
...Olympias, Alexander's mother, to marry a Macedonian girl younger than Alexander himself (then 18). At the feast, Attalus, a warrior, expressed the hope that their union would bring a legitimate heir to the Macedonian throne, thus implying that Alexander was a bastard. Alexander responded by pitching a goblet at Attalus' head. That set off a brawl during which Philip (probably soused) drew his sword, tripped and tumbled. "Look, men," said Alexander, not one for losing battles. "He's getting ready to cross from Europe to Asia, and he falls crossing from couch to couch...
...band that was probably a symbol of royalty. At his feet was a heavy bronze kettle more than a meter in diameter, decorated with three lions. Imported from Greece, the kettle had apparently been filled with wine for this Celtic Tut's burial. In it was a gold goblet...
...This is not Secretary Vance's first visit to Moscow," said Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, raising his crystal goblet of champagne on high. "But it would be close to the truth to say that the responsibility on him and on the Soviet side is far greater than in the past. There is no need to draw the conclusion which we all understand...