Word: haute
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Orly houses no fewer than eleven bars -along with six restaurants, one of which, Les Trois Soleils, rates four crossed knives and forks in the Guide Michelin. It serves such haute cuisine delicacies as langouste Thermidor, filets de sôle Sainte Marie and bananes flambées an kirsch. The restaurant's cellar, equally impressive, houses a 1929 Chateau Latour ($60 a bottle), a 1949 Chateau Haut Brion ($43), and a goodly supply of 1961 Dom Pérignon at $55 per magnum. Les Trois Soleils offers no entertainment, but "dancing weekends" are a regular attraction at Orly...
Mark Taper Forum, the play is perhaps best betrayed by description. Acting on behalf of the stockholders of the copper-rich Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga, the U.S. pressures the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold (George Voskovec), to accede to the murder of the Congolese leader, Patrice Lumumba (Louis Gossett). At the very least, this proposition proves that a sovereign contempt for the playgoers' intelligence is not confined to Broadway...