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...lemon sauce. A savory pork roast in pizza dough was invented by Bettoja's husband Angelo, who also prescribed the wines throughout. There are surprisingly few game dishes, but Angelo did contribute a rustic pheasant pate. Desserts include a chocolate and amaretti pie from Parma and one lavish sweet, Sicilian cassata: lemon cake lopped with a heady mixture of rum, chocolate and ricotta. The baking of this elaborately decorated cassata is so distracting a labor that in 1575 the Roman Catholic Church forbade nuns to make it during Holy Week...
...thing, the conquerors of the megaspenders were forced into extraordinary outlays. Democrat Mark White spent $5 million to turn Clements out of the Texas Governor's chair, and Republican David Durenberger shelled out $3.5 million to beat back Dayton's Senate challenge in Minnesota. Moreover, lavish spending did buy some offices. Democratic Businessman Frank Lautenberg concedes he could never have upset Republican Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick for a New Jersey Senate seat if he had not spent $3.25 million to Fenwick's $1.4 million...
Maybe it doesn't pay to live in Cambridge after all. A Saudi Arabian sheik, who previously doled out lavish cash gifts to several Florida cities and offered a Pennsylvania town $3 million to vote against President Reagan in 1984, never showed at a meeting scheduled with Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci last week...
WHEN ANDROPOV FOUND OUT about his promotion on Thursday, he once again hurried back to his lavish four-room apartment on Kutuzkovsky Prospekt. After carefully hanging his western made coat in the hall closet, he opened the bottle of American vodka he had been saving for a celebration. Then he called to his wife who was just taking some laundry out of the Maytag washer-dryer...
...campaign on his image as a "Mr.Clean" crime-fighter, and his victory margin of 1.4 million votes helped carry incumbent President Gerald R. Ford to a slim victory over Jimmy Carter in the state. But his image and popularity were tarnished by a series of revelations: he had accepted lavish antiques and potentially compromising campaign gifts in a time of fiscal austerity he had used campaign funds to pay family vacation and baby sitting expenses, he had sought to get his wife a federal judgeship...