Word: roasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Meat went right to his head. After only one roast boar he'd begin talking wildly about what he'd do to the Romans. I remember once, when two or three of us were aboard his five-man kayak on the Rhine, he stood up, shaking his leg of antelope, and boasted how he was going to get those effete unprintables! He had a carving knife in his free hand and this really sincere look in his eyes, and I don't know what would have happened if the kayak hadn't tipped over...
After the Nieman dinner--a five-hour session of cocktails, roast beef, wine and more cocktails--Rosenthal headed for bed at the Statler-Hilton Hotel. Just after he fell asleep, the phone rang. I apologized for calling so late an hour...
...juicy, well-marbled rib roast on the cover of the Atlantic Monthly's March issue looks tasty enough, but the magazine did not appeal to executives at Safeway Stores, Inc., the nation's largest supermarket chain (1975 sales: $9.7 billion). After a memo alerting stores to the issue went out from the chain's Oakland, Calif, headquarters last month, some Safeway stores removed the magazine from their newsstand shelves...
...York's Mayor Abe Beame called him "the only chairman of the board who isn't giving me trouble these days." In fact, Frank Sinatra, 60, had no reason to give anyone trouble during last week's Friars Roast in Manhattan. With 1,000 guests crammed into the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, the singer ego-tripped through 4½ hours of praise and put-downs from Comedian Don Rickles, New York Governor Hugh Carey and a dais full of old chums. The $200-and $500-a-plate dinner also brought a visit from one hardy...
Paul Rotterdam, senior lecturer on Visual Studies, has removed his live-chicken-and-egg sculpture from Carpenter Center after the hen was stolen Monday and replaced with a roast chicken on a platter...