Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before we left Hanoi, we were treated to a sumptuous banquet in a Soviet compound (compliments of the North Vietnamese government) that included classical French delicacies, Russian champagne and Vietnamese rice and orange wines. As the lights, which flickered on and off throughout the meal, continued to wink, we puffed on "Dien Bien Phu" cigarettes...
...novel is a rambling series of anecdotes about Danny's travels. He starts off in an incredibly suburban vision of Houston as a student at Rice University: He skids through school with honors, reading and writing when he good and wants to, and playing badminton with neighborhood rich folk. He impulsively marries a long-legged blonde he though he had saved from a crazed bisexual professor at an Austin party. The blonde is, in fact, dumb and the professor rather decent. With his new wife and his first novel advance money, he emigrates to San Francisco, loses his wife...
...road truck drivers continue to be the union's elite, earning up to $20,000 a year, the majority of its members are now in much lower paid, non-trucking jobs. Card-carrying Teamsters now include hospital workers, bridge tenders and race-track guards in New York, rice-mill workers in Houston, lampmakers in Los Angeles and campus police at the University of Minnesota. The Teamsters will shortly absorb an entire union, the 47,000-member Brewery Workers. Yet for all their recruiting success, often the result of extravagant promises to workers, the Teamsters in non-trucking fields have...
Currently, Hemispheres is the only Persian restaurant in Cambridge. Its menu is composed of a variety of mysterious sounding dishes mostly concocted of lamb, rice, syrian bread, eggplant and a wide variety of Middle Eastern spices--though the food isn't so spicy that it cannot be handled by the average Cambridge palette. A few Cambridge staples such as roast beef sandwiches are also on the menu, but the most popular dish and the house specialty is its lamb shishkebob...
...shishkebob itself benefits from fresh lamp and careful preparation. The portions could have been bigger, but the dish was well spiced with green peppers, tomatoes and onions. It is usually served with rice-pilaf. Baklava, a Greek-Turkish pastry filled with walnuts, is lighter and less syrupy at Hemispheres than at most places, and makes a good dessert...