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Word: gourmet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...succeeded, despite the difficulties inherent in his work, in winning both the respect and the affection of the press. Brady, called "the Bear" because, well, he looks a bit like one, has a broad relish for life beyond politics. That enthusiasm embraces the hapless Chicago Cubs, gourmet cooking and, of course, his wife Sarah, whom he calls "Raccoon" because, well, he thinks she looks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Caught in the Line of Fire | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

Jean Struven Harris behind bars is a study in incongruities. She once ran her own kingdom, the Madeira School, where heed was paid and homage given to the headmistress. She once presided over gourmet luncheons, toast and tea, with women who would come and go, talking of Michelangelo. But white gloves and perfect diction are not exactly called for in an American prison. She no longer manages an institution. It manages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Way to Treat a Lady | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...Craig Claiborne's Gourmet Diet, Claiborne with Franey

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Best Sellers: Feb. 16, 1981 | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

...bought the onetime home of Adlai Stevenson on Foxhall Road, with six bedrooms, 4½ baths, a circular drive, and 22-ft. gourmet kitchen. Asking price: $750,000. Secretary of State Alexander Haig for now is renting at the Colonnade, an elegant apartment building ten minutes from the State Department. Mrs. Haig thought she had found the right house, a five-bedroom Tudor-and even dragged the general away from some Inaugural festivities to look at it-but Haig decided that it was "not grand enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Land Rush in Washington | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

PRESENTING a show with the full title The Seven Deadly Sins of the Lower Middle Class to a Cambridge/Loeb Drama Center audience risks a failure of communication: the gulf between Brecht's selfish characters clawing away at each other on the stage and the dainty gourmet shops sitting outside on Brattle St. seems wide enough to swallow Seven Deadly Sins' compact message. The great virtue of Alvin Epstein's American Repertory Theatre production is its dextrous explication of Brecht's easily garbled multiple ironies. Epstein uses his performers, music, dance, mime and even neon signs to illuminate Brecht's critique...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Brecht in Boldface | 12/9/1980 | See Source »

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