Word: salade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oysters, eleven lobsters, two crayfish and innumerable tiny brine shrimp to demonstrate, he said, how man might live in a polluted environment by harvesting fish. On opening night, 35 of the catfish were scheduled to be electrocuted, and served up to specially invited guests along with hush puppies and salad. "My piece is about the cycle of life," Harrison explained...
When Henry Fonda threw a party some months back to celebrate the opening of his ABC television series (The Smith Family), he served all-American fare: hot dogs, sauerkraut and potato salad. "They no longer tent the whole damned yard," says Ronny Clint, manager of Chasen's, whose catering business is off 30% from last year. Says Chuck Pick, one of Hollywood's professional car parkers, "I used to do theatrical parties two or three times a week. Now, if it weren't for doctors, lawyers and businessmen, I'd be out of business...
...politics within the system-unlike the radicals-but always demonstrating your social concern. Being a liberal is a self-conscious awareness. It means seating two blacks at the head table when there are only a handful of their brothers among the 300 paying guests. It means not eating your salad until someone announces that it is made from Union lettuce. It means hissing sexist speakers. Or, as the post- Love Story joke goes, being a liberal means always having to say you're sorry...
...dismay of gourmets, who find the limper, leafier continental varieties more delicate. Imports into Germany have doubled in two years, even though iceberg heads (known as Eissalat) retail for up to 60? per lb., three times as much as lettuce grown locally. The Swedes, who until recently regarded salad as a novelty, now eat more than 4,000,000 Ibs. of imported iceberg lettuce per year, in addition to 432,000 lbs. of U.S. celery hearts...
...Patty who chain-smoked, Patty who felt good for the first time in a long sad time because I was the first guy who treated her like a lady, to use her just right sounding words, me, the gangly, goofy, blushing, cowlicky, smartass, shynose sloppy lunch eater ... (the salad fell out of my mouth, Nancy. Patty's bouncy best friend, used to sit across from me every lunch period to watch the salad fall out of my mouth) the guy who didn't know how to dance, went to Catholic school while all my Little League buddies went to make...