Word: roasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main squares depicted him in golfing clothes. At the 18th hole, U.S. Ambassador Stuart W. Rockwell chatted with General Mohammed Medbouh, commander of the King's military household. "We are the only ones who take golf seriously," sniffed Medbouh. ∙ A lavish buffet, which included lobster, smoked salmon, roast sheep and couscous, was laid out, along with champagne and mint tea. Hassan ate with his seven-year-old son, Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed, one of his five children, under a special canopy. Near by sat Habib Bourguiba Jr., son of Tunisia's President. Italian Ambassador Amedeo Guillet...
Inside, the champagne will froth in the Diplomatic Reception Room, with a lavish buffet of smoked salmon, roast beef and shrimps in coconut (caviar and foie gras were eliminated for economy rea sons) spread in the State Dining Room not far from the multistoried cake. After an interval at the reception, Tricia will climb halfway up the red-carpeted grand stairs and toss her bouquet down to the attendants waiting below; if Tricia's aim is on, it probably will fall to Ed's 25-year-old sister Maizie, who will be a brides maid. Then, reversing the White House...
...emphasize the problems of a play that consists of truncated dialogues. Each scene transition has the actors shout and bustle, only to freeze in position as the lights come up for the next scene. During most scenes, one character mimes something "homey," like folding laundry or cooking pot roast, as the other sits nearby and philosophizes. The widening emotional gap that mars the production is caused by this deadening regularity of style. The vignette approach is good for portraying isolated events in the lives of almost any number of people; when those lives start to change, to create patterns that...
...decorum and ceremony that one expects of a Harvard tradition. The audience included all of one reporter and two photographers, one of them from the athletic department. Attendance was so bad they ended up thanking me four times for coming. Even the spaghetti lunch seemed well below the roast beef banquet standard...
...crisis the English gourmet's problem, which she defines as "the neurosis between the soul and the body"? The English tradition, she thinks, "might have blossomed as richly as that of the French." After Cromwell, mourns Miss Pullar, "nothing was ever quite the same again." "Mighty Roast Beef" became the national dish...