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...community to share in the unique feeling of being an illegal insider trader. Or almost. The guests were transported by boat to Alcatraz, the inactive island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay. There, while 25 actors dressed as convicts and jail guards capered around them, the temporary inmates supped on roast quail with lime sauce and admired the concrete and steel-bar decor. Estimated cost of the bash: about $100,000. To many, that seemed like something of a crime itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OFFICE PARTIES: Sentence: One Night in Quail | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

Jerry Stiller, another actor known primarily for comedy, is equally impressive as the loudmouthed charlatan Dr. Tamkin, who dispenses folk wisdom between gulps of pot roast and watermelon. Joseph Wiseman is a bit too pat as the unfeeling father, but there are finely etched cameos from Katherine Borowitz, Tony Roberts, William Hickey and, particularly, Jo Van Fleet as a dowager who defiantly stares down Tommy while her dog urinates at his feet. (Bellow himself appears in a walk-through as a hotel guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Down And Out in Manhattan | 5/4/1987 | See Source »

This year alone, the central kitchen will serve 25,000 pounds of roast beef, 9300 gallons of ice cream and 17,196 gallons of orange juice. And not all the food Harvard serves is equally popular. More students like pasta dishes than any other main course menu, says Richard J. Montville, manager of the College dining halls, and ice cream is the favorite dessert. Then there's always broccoli cheese pasta...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: In Search of Roast Beast | 11/26/1986 | See Source »

...stranded in Cambridge over the holidays, you're not alone. Although all College dining halls except Adams House are closed on Thanksgiving Day, Food Services has planned a special holiday dinner--including turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie and mashed potatoes--for the 325 undergraduates expected to feast on Harvard's roast beast...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: In Search of Roast Beast | 11/26/1986 | See Source »

...year -- 28 pages opening out in a gatefold reproduction of the glowing Davis mural. Under the panels for each season are a few of Rosenzweig's most popular dishes for that time of year. Among her best: corn cakes with creme fraiche and caviars, chimney-smoked lobster, roast quail with savoy cabbage and kasha, wild mushroom tarts and such knockout desserts as macadamia nut tarts, lemon curd mousse and chocolate bread pudding. It would be a pity to cook by this book, thereby soiling pages with dabs of butter and egg yolk. Better photocopy recipes and keep the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: I Cook, Therefore I Am | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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