Word: gras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gagging geese in Strasbourg are force fed by husky women who stuff funnels down their gullets, the better to make foie gras. A herd of hefty women on the Bismarck Archipelago bolt down endless helpings of tapioca, the better to make fat wives for the scrawny chieftain...
Carnival in Rio is the wildest, the biggest, the craziest mass blast in the world. There are no other contenders, say the cariocas. New Orleans' Mardi Gras? That is for the tourists. The Riviera? Fine, if you like floats. Valencia? Nice fireworks and bullfights. Fasching? Mostly indoors-besides, those Germans get conscience stricken and go home at dawn...
Porto et Poires. Renowned in Washington not only for her looks and her style, but for her abilities as a hostess, Madame Alphand turned out a dinner that had Francophiles kissing their finger tips in joy. It was, in short, les works: a delicate jole gras from Landes, a filet de boeuf Charolais sous la cendre garni renaissance, accompanied by a profound Chateau Gruaud-Larose en magnum 1952; an unassuming little hearts-of-lettuce salad with mimosa dressing. And for a windup, poires Mona Lisa-poached pears, swaddled in hot chocolate sauce, bundled into a pastry shell-trailed...
...women were grouped in such a way as to suggest the positioning of the monsters' heads. The emotion of the scene was transformed into an explosion of claws and hoofs, of talon-shaped fingers and screeching beaks. It is a bristle of total hate. Durchanek calls it Mardi Gras...
...later he flings down the Radcliffe Freshman Register, and stomps off into the sun-embroidered hills. Whether those hills be the rolling plains of the Cambridge Common or the path to some other aviary, depends in good measure on the sophistication, the savoir faire, the pate de foie gras with which the male approaches those imperspicuous pages...