Word: salads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first novel, Nora Ephron, 41, has carried on the family tradition, going public with her personal tribulations. Anyone familiar with the author's bright, acerbic articles (Crazy Salad, Scribble Scribble) knows the tropes. As before, there is the Johnny Carson Comparative: She "was so stingy she once tried to sell a used nylon stocking to a mugger"; the Descriptive Thrust: "His coffee tastes like a very spicy old foot"; the Confessional Counterpunch: "I would imagine [my husband's] funeral . .. and how soon I could start dating...
...flavors available, it is possible to have an entire dinner composed of popcorn. After the cocktail hour (piña colada flavor with sour-cream-and-onion popcorn for hors d'oeuvres), the finger-fed meal features New England-clam-chowder popcorn, barbecue popcorn for entrees, fruit salad composed of strawberry, grape and cantaloupe popcorn and, for dessert, chocolate-fudge popcorn...
...Britons had asked to be served typical California food onshore. That explains, for instance, the ultrahip luncheon salad planned at the Los Angeles Music Center: red lettuce leaves crammed with pieces of pink grape fruit, strawberries, avocado and exquisite Enoki mushrooms. Explained Caterer Nicole Cottrell: "We couldn't serve a tiny bird because it could shoot across her plate...
...lighting levels on the television monitor. The performance will be broadcast, and Levine knows that what he watches from the pit is not necessarily what audiences at home will see. By 1:25 p.m. he is once again back at his desk, eating the rest of his lunch (a salad) and looking over a list of apprentice singers to be approved and the provisional plan for the Met's 1986-87 season. He sets a time to meet with Artist David Hockney, designer of Parade...
...most of the day. Charles' boss treats him to endless tales of a Dartmouth son--"He wants to be at Harvard, but he couldn't get in"--who is suffering from sexual maladjustment. Then there's the typist Betty, a Ted Kennedy look-alike much enamoured of Charles and salad dip recipes...