Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...celebrators, many making their first trip into the tubes, were treated to something more than usual subway fare: 50 Ibs. of octopus flown in from the Bahamas, 50 dozen oysters from Virginia, five 30-lb. lobsters from Nova Scotia, a 20-lb. Alaskan king crab, 100-lb. rounds of roast beef from Omaha and pastry fantasies as arcane as Ken Russell's own visions. By the subway entrances sat an 8-ft.-long Tommy sign fashioned from 3,000 tomatoes, radishes, cauliflowers and broccoli...
Then there is the myth of the homesick. While typing out a 20-page paper in the sterile gloomth of his monastic room, with its poster less walls and chill dampness, this student becomes lost in visions of refrigerators crammed with roast beef and coke, cupboards overflowing with Oreo cookies and cinnamon buns, trays filled with chocolate candies and salted peanuts (and perhaps marmalade candies if it's Passover). A late night movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy is on the living room television as the student fixes himself a salami and cheese sandwich with a pickle...
...said he used calculus without ever having learned about it," the filial, but still skeptical, grandson explains carefully. (Norris is engaged in finishing all his own roast beef and a fraction of his identical twin's sentences.) "It is a difficult thing to check, isn't it? But he was a clever man--an astronomy buff, used to have the whole family up to look at the planets." Ross goes on to the next subject. When unquestionable authority is lacking, even compilers of record books make do with circumstantial evidence...
...leaves them feeling unsatisfied. Norris looks up from his roast beef: he, too, admits to no exaggerated enthusiasm for his clever grandfather's astronomic prowess. As Ross recalls the happy evenings spent in collective star-gazing. Norris nods his head...
...streamline their purchasing procedures in the U.S. Arab hospitality was generous. As guests of Prince Salman, governor of Riyadh, the businessmen sipped coffee around a bonfire, then retired to a large black tent as a chilly drizzle began. Inside, they sat cross-legged on carpets and feasted on whole roast lamb, spiced rice and Arab delicacies. En route back to the U.S., the group conferred with President Boumedienne in Algiers' Palais du Peuple on development policies for the Third World, then flew over the Atlas Mountains to Rabat, where they talked with Moroccan government officials about their country...