Word: mimosas
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...climb from the coast through Ngoan Muc Pass brings travelers to a plateau strewn magnificently with poinsettia trees the size of small maples, all in bloom. A thousand varieties of orchid are said to grow in the province, and mimosa vines with delicate, mauve flowers climb innumerable trellises. At the 52-room Dalat Palace Hotel, completed in 1923, Headwaiter Hoang Van Tu serves meals, as he has since 1942 to the likes of Charles de Gaulle, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu and even the Emperor, Bao Dai himself. There is nothing imperial about the hostelry today, but the mosquito netting hanging...
...Cold Storage, has conjured up the Richelieu, a baroque spa somewhere in the mountains of Europe, and he has populated it with a selection of guests who have the cultural and ethnic diversity of a World War II movie bomber crew: the French gigolo; the Levantine low-life; Mimosa Klein, the Jewish poet from Wellesley; and more, including Cesare Bottivicci, the Italian mutant prognosticator. The physical and emotional excess of these characters matches their surroundings, particularly the immense sweet table itself, laden with creamy goodies and attended by bewigged and powdered servants...
...Henriot Reserve Phillippe de Rothschild 1975 now costs $110. Five years ago, a comparable bottle sold for about $60. At Jacqueline's Champagne & Wine Bar in Manhattan, a fluted glass of champagne costs $5.50. Some bars also serve pricey champagne cocktails, such as Kir Royal (with cassis) and Mimosa (with orange juice...
With a tall, slender trunk and a ragged umbrella of drooping green leaves, it looks like a mimosa. But the tropical Leucaena leucocephala is a bit different from other trees: in tropical climates it grows as high as 65 ft. in five years. That makes it a prime candidate for reforestation projects in overlumbered and wood-short Third World countries. The tree is also sort of a botanical schmoo;* undemanding itself, it provides a bountiful array of foods and fuels...
Only Twice. Now, when Nixon is in town, San Clemente hums with the business of the most powerful nation on earth-and of the camp followers. Camera-laden tourists by the hundreds cruise the once-quiet, mimosa-lined boulevards in the hope of spotting the President. The San Clemente Inn provides maps of the quarter-mile route to the gates of the Western White House, but all the tourist gets is the gates; a grove of palms hides Nixon's offices and home...