Word: gourmet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Demarest, one of TIME'S most versatile writers and a man who has handled assignments from De Gaulle to gourmet cooking, was as impressed as his companion by the Chinese he saw, calling the country "Communism with a smile." Mike remembers Mydans working day after day as if he wanted to capture that expression on a a billion faces. "Carl chased around China like a mountain goat," says Demarest. "He was patient, inexhaustible and, above all, unflappable...
...gourmet is someone who would not fly from New York to Nebraska simply to check out a steakhouse rumored to serve beef in the rough shape and size of a softball. A gourmand is someone who would. Author Calvin Trillin did. His conclusion: "I've tasted worse steaks." Trillin, however, has an edge on his fellow gluttons, whom he describes as Big Hungry Boys. A peripatetic correspondent for The New Yorker for the past eleven years, he has an excuse to roam the country at will, eating, sometimes quite literally, off the fat of the land. A writer...
...York, a town that then included Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Dorothy Parker and other luminaries of the Algonquin Round Table. As a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the '30s and '40s, "Mank" continued to shoot from the quip. Dining at the home of a pretentious gourmet, he suddenly rushed to the bathroom. "Don't worry," he assured his host later, "the white wine came up with the fish." When movie attendance dropped, he offered a unique solution: "Show the movies in the streets, and drive the people back into the theaters...
...contends, they are still struggling to keep their heads above water. Says he: "We have no exorbitant expenses, but it is not easy to save." Perhaps so, but they rent a two-bedroom penthouse at $616 a month, take lots of taxis, go on frequent overseas vacations, eat in gourmet restaurants and have a housekeeper who helps look after their baby. Ira believes that "you can make do with one income, but you get accustomed to a style of living where you spend more quickly, and it becomes almost a necessity to have a double salary...
...necessarily share what Novelist Saul Bellow called the "kiss-the-ground-at-Ellis-Island attitude." Many are the shards and barbs on the road to becoming American. U.S. television is a big turn-off for Europeans. So, at least initially, are permissive child rearing, much so-called gourmet food, gun-toting cops, blah-blah cocktail parties, football and baseball, bubble gum, littered streets, first-naming on first encounter, and such other indue -ers of culture shock as the warning on a hotel dressing table that greeted one European couple on their first night in New York: YOUR DAY ENDS...