Word: omelet
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Long familiarity enables the three to talk in a kind of clipped shorthand, and on occasion they even finish each other's sentences. Over the second course (cold cereal for Baker and Meese, a Western omelet for Deaver) the breakfast talk turned to a prospective White House order allowing striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization to be hired for some Government jobs (though not again as controllers). Meese suggested some precise lawyerly language. Said Baker: "I think the PATCO stuff came out . . . " Deaver finished: ". . . just the way it should have...
...vulgarities do not make him any less appealing to the opposition. Even the poisonous Genevieve concedes, "Carl, if you had always been the mean son of a bitch you've turned into in your old age, I'd probably have stuck by you." Over a simple cheese omelet, Reinhart concludes autobiographically: "Food is I really kinder than people." In the end, I his moral palate has become as discriminating as his taste-buds: he lets others settle their own hash...
Just how more equitably to sort out what Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt calls "the intergovernmental omelet of scrambled responsibilities" was the subject of much debate last week. Babbitt, a Democrat, and Tennessee's Alexander, a Republican, introduced what they termed a "swap" proposal: Washington would take over all responsibility for Medicaid, while the states would assume total fiscal control of primary and secondary education. Though the idea met with considerable enthusiasm, the conferees agreed not to advocate formally anything so drastic until its full implications could be evaluated. Instead they adopted a more general resolution, offering to accept...
...Owner Roarty tries to kill his philandering barman Eamonn Bales with a toadstool omelet. When the poison fails, the publican does in the cad with a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...service, costs $50.90 (scarcely $5 more than a Holiday Inn around Detroit). Lunch for two at an elegant restaurant (green salad, gigot d'agneau, Cabernet Sauvignon and chocolate charlotte) runs $40. More modest pocketbooks can find such café fare as a small quiche or an omelet at $2, a chef's salad at $3.55. A 14-block rush-hour cab ride comes to $2.25, sans...