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...Tour d'Argent is one of only four Parisian restaurants that consistently earn three stars-the highest rating-from the Guide Michelin, France's arbiter of gastronomy. The others: Maxim's, Las-serre and Le Grand Vefour...
...malice to be a good hostess," and she has been a very good hostess indeed. "I'm afraid I'm rather malevolent about people," she says without a hint of contrition. Embroidered on a small pillow in a second-floor drawing room is her favorite maxim: "If you haven't got anything good to say about anyone, come...
...China's success thus far in preserving its culture can be laid to the success of Maoism in stripping the country selectively of those traditional elements in its heritage that are incompatible with the regime's plans for China's future. Mao's disdain for the west and his maxim, "Let the past serve the present and let foreign things serve China," laid the framework in which modernization has proceeded...
Unlike many of their French newspaper competitors (and like U.S. food critics), Gault and Millau consistently name names. If commenting on Maxim's, they avoid such coy evasions as "a well-known restaurant on the Rue Royale." As a result, they sometimes face the fury of advertisers and libel suits. Of one establishment they recently wrote: "The fish soup was watery, the lobster brochette insipid . . . Only the maitre d'hôtel had a smile on his face." The offending Marseille restaurant-appropriately named Le New York -lost not only customers but the libel suit as well...
...England maxim...