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...radical for love's sake who finds himself stuck to the hot asphalt pavement after going limp while protesting housing discrimination. He is the hapless yearner for un-chic Rosalie Mondle, who might one day paint "Get Out of Vietnam" across his chest. He is the groping incipient gourmet (trying to out-cook his friends) who dreams that he is accused of eating Fritos. He is the poor chap who cannot get invited to those with-it parties Rosalie attends, "where whites gathered to be castigated by some prominent Negro." Says Barnett: "I can't understand...
...evening skyline just as Mies planned that it should. Similarly, any tenant moving into his apartment houses on Chicago's Lake Shore Drive has to accept the gray fiberglass curtains that Mies specified for their floor-to-ceiling windows. A bon vivant who enjoyed fine-tailored suits, gourmet food, and huge cigars, Mies once contemplated moving into his own building, then decided to remain in his oldfashioned, high-ceilinged apartment nearby. Visitors there found it characteristically spartan, decorated simply with black leather settees and easy chairs and a superb collection of Paul Klee's paintings lining the white...
...while Armstrong and Aldrin land and return from the surface, is by all accounts the most likable member of the crew. Though he comes from a distinguished military family, he goes out of his way to slop around in jeans and act as unmilitary as possible. He enjoys cooking gourmet dinners and knows his way around French wines. To Collins, everybody is "Babe," and he likes to poke fun at the bloated titles that the simplest pieces of space hardware carry. "What we need in the space program is more English majors," he says...
...months that followed the overly successful Playboy parody, they served dinners there almost every weekend which stretched the limits of gourmet excess. Cases of incredible wines were flown in from France. And the entire interior was fixed up to greater-than-Hearst elegance, including the repair of the rare delphic tiles that cover the walls downstairs, at a cost of about...
Basque cuisine. Famed New York Gourmet Michael Field pronounces its cream of king crab soup as fine a soup as any he has ever tasted. English-speaking Owner Alfonso delights in introducing tourists to such unpronounceable Basque delicacies as kokotxas, zancarrón, merluza koskera and bacalao...