Word: parise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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· The royal crown was fashioned by Paris Jeweler Arthus Bertrand, who topped it with a 138-carat C.A.E. diamond. The crown alone cost $2 million; Bokassa's scepter and Catherine's diadem upped the jewelry bill to $5 million.
All in all, the coronation cost about $20 million, which was a bit much for a country whose annual gross domestic product (mostly from diamonds, cotton and timber) is only $250 million. Kenya's Sunday Nation wrote sarcastically about Bokassa's "clowning glory." Zambia's Daily Mail...
The ascent to gourmandise is no longer a matter of picking up a cookbook and buying a set of copper pots. Present and would-be home chefs support hundreds of cooking schools in the U.S. They are mostly very good?notably James Beard's and Lydie Marshall's classes in...
DIED. David K.E. Bruce, 79, paradigm of the American aristocrat-public servant, who worked for six Presidents as diplomat, adviser and troubleshooter; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. The tall, courtly son of a Maryland Senator and Pulitzer-prizewinning author, Bruce had a Jeffersonian career-farmer, lawyer, author, state...