Word: perigord
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...poet, according to a cynical Paris critic. There are prizes for the best novels about soccer, vacations, volcanoes and happy old age. The Grand Prix Litteraire des Vins du Périgord de la Région de Bergerac goes to the best literary celebration of the glories of Perigord wine. First prize: half a barrel of Périgord wine. The Prix Mystère et Cognac, which was unfortunately abolished this year, traditionally went to the best detective novel whose hero drank cognac. There are even awards for losers. The coveted Prix Cazes goes to a writer...
Officially, nobody is supposed to campaign at all. Unofficially, the various candidates are paying an unusual amount of attention to the 42 African votes, nearly one-third of the total. Jakobson has been dining discreetly with a number of African representatives at Le Perigord, a fancy French restaurant near his office; Waldheim went on a goodwill tour of Africa. Less prominent contenders can be observed buttonholing potential supporters at the coffee bar in the U.N. delegates' lounge...
...southwestern France this season, farmers unearthed barely 40 tons of truffles, compared with an annual crop of 1,500 to 2,000 tons in the mid-19th century. This was no truffling matter. Accordingly, 450 farmers and scientists met at a two-day conference early this month in the Perigord region of France to discuss the tuber's troubled future. Mourned Charles Parra, president of the Federation of Truffle Producers in the Lot department in southwestern France: "If we don't find a remedy, the truffle will disappear forever from our markets...
...more than $100,000. In his spare time, he reads (lately Galbraith's Ambassador's Journal and Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich), watches news and sports on TV ("85% of the rest is junk"). Also, "I talk to my wife"-Lorraine Perigord, his third, an accomplished painter whom he married in 1955. Mike has a son by his first marriage, Chris, 22, who was a top reporter at the Harvard University radio station but went into newspapering and now covers city hall for the Boston Globe...