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...they planned to use the toaster-size computer console as an electronic telephone directory. But they soon found the Minitel terminal equally convenient for paying bills, purchasing airline tickets and making theater reservations. Lately they have started shopping a la modem, issuing on-line orders for everything from foie gras to fine wines. "Each wine has a numeric code," explains Mayaux, as if buying a Burgundy electronically were the most natural thing in the world. "We punch it into the Minitel, and ten days later the wine arrives." The Mayauxs are not alone. Today some 4.5 million French...
...price-fixed lunch at $6.50 and a la carte main courses at $8.25 that evoked gasps from customers. Nor was its success instantaneous. In a review written one month after Lutece opened, Craig Claiborne, then the restaurant critic for the New York Times, allowed that two dishes -- foie gras baked in a brioche loaf and roast veal stuffed with truffled kidneys -- were superb, but, he summarized, "the food at Lutece could not be called great cuisine...
...only one of many that swept Haiti last week. As the country's 6 million citizens adjusted to the realization that Baby Doc was gone for good, they exulted in what the Roman Catholic bishop of Cap Haitien called "our second independence." And although the annual pre-Lent Mardi Gras celebration was canceled for fear that the swelling crowds would become disorderly, there were noisy, exuberant gatherings across the land...
...favorite cuisine, he reasons, ought to be sufficient. No more. Last week French chefs banded together to challenge the world record for the longest buffet. The result of their labors: an 846-ft. table filled with an appetizing array of food. The creation was unveiled during a Mardi Gras celebration at the World Tourism and Travel Show in Paris and offered dishes representing all the departments of France, including the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. Two hundred chefs served up their specialties by the meter...
...final straw for Duvalier may have been his anxiety over the annual pre- Lenten carnival that was to begin this week. For Haitians, the three-day Mardi Gras festival is a time of orgiastic release, when they can momentarily forget their cares. Ordinarily Baby Doc would have joined in the festivities, but a boycott of the carnival called by his opponents was gathering momentum. The President, sniggered residents of Port-au-Prince, would be the laughingstock of a carnival to which no one came. On the other hand, any crowds that did form would be a danger to his regime...