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...sirloin and fries. Even Lyndon Johnson, then Vice President, was accorded a rather undistinguished table. Undaunted, he asked, "Don't you serve the same food at all the tables?" The food is indeed succulent anywhere on the premises, especially La Tour's famous leg of lamb Claude Terrail and pressed ducks-of which the restaurant has served 468,800 since proprietors started taking count...
...scourging of Egypt with plagues until the children of Israel were set free. And always, that last terrible plague, when the wrath of God slew the first-born of every Egyptian but passed over the houses of the captive Hebrews, which had been daubed with the blood of a lamb. At the end of the feast, the ancient hope would be toasted anew as the celebrants pledged reunion in the land of their fathers: "L'shanah haba-ah Birushaliyim!"-"Next year in Jerusalem...
Much of the charm of the new Haggadah comes from full-page watercolors by Artist Leonard Baskin, better known for his prints and sculpture. In a rough-hewn but softly hued departure from his other, often starker work, Baskin evokes many of the familiar Passover figures -the paschal lamb, Pharaoh, the plagues, and the prophet Elijah...
...hundred pounds of beef, 400 lbs. of fish, some 100,000 lbs. of real-life Newport socialites hung with $1 million worth of Cartier carats, and a mound of butter carved into the shape of a lamb by an 80-year-old nun? A Scarlett O'Hara-style search for a movie heroine and screen tests for 75 antique automobiles? Five 40-ft. glass and steel panels removed from a New York showroom in order to put a $100,000 Rolls-Royce on display? Great Scott...
...truth seeker: doubt. One hundred and fifty years ago Charles Lamb observed that credulity was the child's strength but the adult's weakness. That observation is even more valid today, when shoddy or ignorant research is used to lend legitimacy to the most extravagant tenets of the psychic movement...