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Goldstein's A la Russe brings alive many of the mouth-watering meals of Russian literature, like the robust soups and breads of Gogol's Ukrainian tales. Borsch, the rich beet soup considered typically Russian, is actually native to the Ukraine, which boasts 100 varieties; included here are a Ukrainian and a Moscow version. The spicy food of Georgia is a prized addition to the blander Russian cuisine, notably tabaka (pressed and grilled chicken), as well as the more familiar shashlyk from the Caucasus. Among other dishes well known to the West, beef Stroganoff and Russian salad were...
...home, as abroad, Kennedy's performance was mixed. He was a fiscal conservative. The economy was robust during his thousand days. Economic growth averaged 5.6% annually. Unemployment came down by almost two percentage points from the nearly 8% level when he took office. Inflation held at a prelapsarian...
...robust dollar took seed precisely four years ago during the Carter Administration. At the 1979 annual meeting of the IMF in Belgrade, foreign moneymen told Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker that he had to do something to bolster the then sulking American currency. Volcker returned to Washington and three days later unveiled a strategy for curbing U.S. inflation and stopping the dollar's skid. The plan called for the Federal Reserve to keep extraordinarily tight controls over the growth in money, even if that meant sharply higher interest rates...
Virginia Woolf celebrated Mme. de Sévigné in a lyrical essay: "This great lady, this robust and fertile letter writer, who in our age would probably have been one of the great novelists ..." Thornton Wilder sketched an invidious portrait of the 17th century French author in The Bridge of San Luis Rey; the poet Alphonse Lamartine called her the Petrarch of French prose; Proust compared her art to Dostoyevsky...
Klein is betting that the look women want is one of robust health and fitness, regardless of the gender of origin. He is, after all, a winner in the designer-jeans sweepstakes. Remember Brooke Shields' line three years ago, "Do you want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." By November, when his line of undies hits the stores, the answer will be: one more pair of Calvins...