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...tastes became more refined, sensuous dining did the trick. Richelieu (the 18th century duke, not, thank heaven, the Cardinal) gave elegant little suppers for his friends and their mistresses, all of whom dined in the buff. Madame de Pompadour got interesting results with truffles. Brillat-Savarin, the French jurist and gastronome, found that the truffle "makes women more amiable and men more amorous." Rabelais, on the other hand, got his kicks from marzipan...
...conspiracy and bribery trial that ended last week in Manhattan seemed a case of three people risking too much for too little. Why would a respected jurist like Gabel, 76, jeopardize her 16 years on the bench for a job for her daughter? Why would Myerson -- a successful and well-to-do former Miss America, a former candidate for the U.S. Senate -- care whether Nancy Capasso < got $1,500 a week or $500? And what was $1,000 a week more or less to Andy Capasso, 43, a sewer contractor with multiple homes and cars, city contracts worth $150 million...
...York City. Last week Leonard Sand, a soft-spoken, patient federal judge, got fed up with that city's refusal over three years to carry out his orders to place public housing in its white neighborhoods. Gazing down sternly from his bench in Manhattan at four Yonkers councilmen, the jurist delivered a tongue- lashing. "What we're clearly confronted with is a total breakdown of any sense of responsibility," he charged. "What we have here is a competition to see . . . who can be the biggest political martyr. There does have to come a moment of truth, a moment when...
...Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights doctrine...
...among them Roland Dumas in his former post as Foreign Minister, Pierre Beregovoy as Finance Minister, Pierre Joxe as Interior Minister and Jack Lang as Culture Minister. The novelty is provided by a limited number of non-Socialists, including Centrist Senator Michel Durafour as Civil Service Minister, Supreme Court Jurist Pierre Arpaillange as Justice Minister and Businessman Roger Fauroux as Industry and Foreign Trade Minister. Last week senior Mitterrand aides telephoned eight members of the outgoing conservative Cabinet to sound them out about serving under Rocard. All refused. Mitterrand, however, believes that after new elections many centrists and even moderate...