Word: pheasant
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There were happier things too, about Dreamland--nights in cars with girls whose names were Diana Leigh and Valerie Lynn, girls whose names ran together if their faces did not; of hunting in crisp mornings for pheasant and grouse on ground that crackled as you walked over it. But Dreamland remained gray; gray shadows broken and heightened by little bands of neon, when the Bells of the past spoke to Thomas Scott Bell at Harvard, calling in his own mind to him above the clutter and emotion of being tremendously alone in a tone of evil desperation...
...plate dinner in Foggy Bottom. The appetizers included quail eggs stuffed with caviar and a bipartisan receiving line comprising Vance and his three living predecessors, Henry Kissinger, William Rogers and Dean Rusk. They and the guests sat down to a dinner of rockfish, roast pheasant, oyster plant on artichoke bottoms, wild rice with water chestnuts, salmagundi salad and brie, along with a '76 Pommard and toasts in '69 Dom Pérignon. It was a menu that first Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson might have served. But to 177 people? Only if Jefferson too charged...
...fair tart to a web of political, financial and sexual hanky-panky that encompasses a titled M.P., a police chief superintendent who turns drag queen by night, Middlesex pols and proles, bird hunters of all varieties and an Arab sheik bent on making the green and pheasant land an adjunct of Riyadh. Molehill is the sixth novel by Oxonian Kenyon, 47, and the first to feature the engaging 'Enry Peckover, whose career can only...
There were happier things too, about Dreamland--nights in cars with girls whose names were Diana Leigh and Valerie Lynn, girls whose names ran together if their faces did not; of hunting in crisp mornings for pheasant and grouse on ground that crackled as you walked over it. But Dreamland remained gray; gray shadows broken and heightened by little bands of neon, when the Bells of the past spoke to Thomas Scott Bell at Harvard, calling in his own mind to him above the clutter and emotion of being tremendously alone in a tone of evil desperation...
...night crowd included a plastic surgeon who had recently done some work on the star's chin, which was a little puffy. Still, there was no mistaking the face-or the figure-of Elizabeth Ray, who last week made her stage debut in St. Charles, Ill., at the Pheasant Run Playhouse in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Ray, whose sexual dalliance with her boss, Wayne Hays, brought about the Ohio Congressman's downfall earlier this year, quickly demonstrated that her acting ability was on a par with her secretarial skills. Though she seemed in her element...