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Eventually Gorbachev retired to the nearby Marigny Palace to change for a state dinner. When the Soviet First Couple returned to the Elysee, Mitterrand and Gorbachev staged a public reprise of several elements of their private chat. After a meal of oyster soup, sole a la Dieppoise, saddle of lamb Provencale and iced nougat, Mitterrand urged both superpowers to find a "reasonable compromise" in Geneva next month. Calling Franco-Soviet cooperation a "fundamental element of our foreign policy," the French President reiterated his country's opposition to space weapons, without mentioning...
...delectable cliches, most notably ravioli filled with shellfish and anything steamed in a packet of cabbage. At Jamin, the seductive interpretation is ravioli with langoustine on melting leaves of cabbage. Although always immaculately cooked, Robuchon's creations are occasionally a bit too bland. ! Examples are his celebrated fillet of lamb in a salt crust and the chicken poached in a pig's bladder that puffs up like a jolly balloon. Because he finds the quality of French beef and veal inconsistent, he does not serve them...
...have no plans at the moment," he says. "I don't perceive myself as a great sacrificial lamb here. But there are a variety of circumstances, personal and otherwise, that say at some point, it's time to leave...
...company. Indeed, at the very mention of the name John Leonard it seemed that Montaigne threw his mantel across his shoulders and left the room, followed by Pascal delicately lifting the skirt of his vestments; Hazlitt said he had a previous engagement at the five courts, Lamb muttered something about his sister not being well. Orwell stubbed out his cigarette. Camus buckled the belt of his trenchcoat, and they were all gone...
...azaleas around the house in River Oaks blooming, as significant as the notices on the fences reading ARMED GUARD ON DUTY AT ALL TIMES, as regular as the forays to Jamail's grocery store with the cook and chauffeur to carry home the dips and sauces and racks of lamb. Clothes are an essential part of the endless series of balls by which this brash, arriviste city supports its cultural and charitable urges...