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...diversion for his opera-singing wife Audrey Mildmay, it is now run by Son George. He surveys the audience, in the obligatory evening dress to reinforce the sense of occasion, picnicking on the 640-acre estate's broad lawns during the long early-evening intermission. Smoked salmon, páté, cold chicken and white wine or champagne are the staple fare. No wonder second acts always seem better. Says Jonathan Miller, one of the festival's visiting producers: "There is a sense of incandescence on those long summer evenings for both audience and cast. You feel like...
Then they take the coastal highway north again along the savage shore, turning off at Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest to see the aptly named Rogue River, where the salmon in spring and fall fairly beg to be caught. On they drive, through the state of Washington, into Canada, where they pick up the Alaska highway that takes them to America's true last frontier. Not far from Anchorage, they get out and walk on Portage Glacier. Later they fly to Mount McKinley National Park, where they learn that 100 hardy souls are threatening this season to assault...
...squads of security-trained servants for the power-elite." Politburo members and national secretaries of the Communist Party use black Zil limousines, hand-tooled and worth about $75,000 each. A network of unmarked stores caters to the Soviet aristocracy. Its stock: rare czarist delicacies like caviar, smoked salmon, export vodka and exotic wines, choice meats. Those stores also carry foreign goods the proletariat never sees: French cognac, American cigarettes, Japanese tape recorders-all at discounts. Including relatives, Smith estimates, these indulged shoppers amount to several million. Everything is maskirovannoye (masked) -the guilty secrets of privilege...
Salisbury's Meikles Hotel still serves excellent Scottish smoked salmon in its elegant La Fontaine restaurant. As she nibbled at a portion last week, a well-dressed Salisbury matron observed that "the brouhaha over black rule was a bit of a bother, but the talks are ended and that's all over now." Did she see anything ominous in the breakdown of black-white dialogue? "Oh heavens, no. My servant tells me all of his people want us to stay and run the country. He's terribly trustworthy, you know...
...rard's blanquette contains 280 calories per serving, v. Mother's 1,000. A typical 500-calorie menu at Eugenie-les-Bains last season included: first day-mousseline of crayfish with watercress sauce, leg of milk-fed lamb cooked in wild hay, apple surprise, eggplant caviar, salmon with sorrel sauce, pear souffle. Second day-salad of artichokes and green beans in wine vinegar, sweetbreads with mushrooms, melon sherbet, poached egg with watercress, whiting with chopped vegetables, baked apple...