Word: michelin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There in a colorless London house lives George Smiley, Master Spy (ret.). Resolutely out of style, fat as the Michelin tire man, he has long been cuckolded by his wife and betrayed by close associates. It is tune the old cold warrior hung up his spites. Not Smiley. Once more, Author John le Carré trots him out in a flawed and misnamed adventure: Smiley's People is actually about the people's Smiley. All of his endearing characteristics, so well catalogued in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy, are herein amplified. Now heading toward...
...Oberlin aesthete, takes to reading Hemingway aloud and composing songs with lyrics like "Paris is a teacher who has lessons to give/ How to love, how to live." The lovesick Laura (Blanche Baker) turns sightseeing into a grim obsession by setting out to visit every listing in the Michelin Guide. Of course these students, like so many before them, are not so adept at going native that they can successfully resist an occasional Big Mac attack...
...representatives of Shell, which had been selling the 500 as the "Super Shell Steel Radial," met with Firestone personnel. The Firestone minutes of the meeting say that "due to the problems" of customer returns, Shell was prepared to quit marketing the tire or shift to another supplier, perhaps Michelin...
Some Sugar Snap enthusiasts go so far as to predict that the new, wholly edible pea may surpass the tomato as the American home gardeners' top crop. The Michelin of munchables, All-America Selections, based in Los Altos, Calif., has not just given the Sugar Snap a rare gold medal and pronounced it the most successful new strain it has savored in its 46 years; it has also issued a recipe leaflet (500). Suggested treatments range from creamed Sugar Snap soup to Sugar Snap tempura. Actually, says the vegetable's inventor, Gallatin's lanky. Calvin Lamborn...
Pidgin for a mouth-watering dish is brok'd'moutt (it breaks the mouth). While Hawaiian cuisine may never break Michelin's mouth, Maui offers some distinctive delicacies: ophis (yellow limpets) eaten raw, chicken stewed in coconut milk, kuolo (coconut and sweet-potato pudding) and macadamia-nut pie, aloha cousin to Southern pecan pie; also, almost all the island's fish, notably mahimahi (dolphin), ahi (tuna), ono (wahoo), opakapaka (pink snapper), akule (mackerel) and aquaculturally raised catfish, all of which are often served in a papillote of ti leaves; and all the tropical fruits like papaya...