Word: salade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tent City the temperature was about 110 degrees all three days and dust settled over everything. Air conditioning at the Republican convention made the place pleasantly chilly--some delegates even protested that the hall was too cold. The press was treated to free food, such as shrimp salad lunches and drinks by the GOP, while they could buy a plate of rice and beans at Tent City. The Republicans provided free phones, typewriters, tv's and work areas, while there was a bank of pay phones atop a steep hill at Tent City...
That careful collage of floral arrangements, good thoughts, party favors and salad known as the ladies' lunch has always been something of an art form among Republican women, or at least among those who seemed to dominate in Dallas last week. For certain circles, Nancy Reagan has transformed a sprinkling of fresh raspberries in a tart shell into something approaching the national food. Ballrooms were packed at lunchtime with women who described themselves as mainstream. At a Monday lunch given by Anti-ERA-Activist Phyllis Schlafly, Dorothy Kranhold, an alternate delegate from Danville, Calif, said, "It amazes me that...
...SALAD DAYS by Françoise Sagan...
...American publisher came up with a blithe title like Salad Days (the French title is Le Chien Couchant] for this predictable little morality tale is hard to figure out. Sagan is writing against her strength. She seems to have little access to these pinched minds, so that her customary grace notes-sly humor, sheer oddity-are rarely struck. But the story is told in sure-handed fashion, and it is flawlessly paced. Gueret at least is a convincing character, and the author takes an unexpectedly hearty interest in his clumsy pursuit of Mme. Biron. The French critics are doubtless right...
Howard's biography is shrewd and intelligent and supplies all the details about Margaret Mead, down to her recipe for salad dressing. Bateson's memoir is more an act of poetic intuition. Yet she is blunter than Howard about her mother's affairs with lovers of both sexes, and more specific about the earth mother's need to be mothered herself...