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...reason lies in its suitability to the national life-style. Like sneakers and blue jeans, sandwiches are comfortable, adaptable and practical. They can be dressed up with the best beluga caviar and finest Scotch smoked salmon or reduced to the simplest school-lunch-box peanut-butter-and-jelly combination or even a "Fluffernutter" (peanut butter with Marshmallow Fluff, the rage with the kindergarten set). Sandwiches may be dainty, crustless cucumber-and-watercress creations for genteel tea parties or towering copies of the Dagwood, the raid-the-refrigerator construction invented by Blondie's husband Dagwood Bumstead. Determined to add as much...
...thing, Soltner feels, Americans have become more sophisticated and know about food and products, and he finds that rewarding. Yet a surprisingly large number of specialties remain from the original menu, among them the creamed pea soup, creme Saint-Germain, the mignonettes of beef in puff pastry, the salmon in crust, and snails in tiny terrines with shallot and garlic butter. Recently Soltner worked out a new and delectable variation on those snails, combining them with the traditional herb butter and Riesling wine and baking them inside crusty brioches...
...staffers also cash in by selling their expertise and connections. Indeed, members of the House Ways and Means Committee were concerned that the President's tax-reform bill would provoke an exodus of staffers into the lobbying ranks. Their fears were not unfounded: the committee's chief counsel, John Salmon, quit to work as a lobbyist for the law firm of Dewey, Ballantine; James Healey, former aide to Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, quit to join Black, Manafort...
...kind of information that would have knocked old Grease Monkey Buchanan's hat in the creek. She said she was an investment banker, and that her work would pull her away from the show early. She had to be with clients in Scotland the following morning, to fish for salmon along the Tweed. And on Wednesday she had to be in Paris, to put together a deal for a mobile bureau de change to be operated out of armored cars...
...after years as a junior executive, is still a long way from inheriting the family business. Yes, Diana is charming, and at 24 she has become stunningly self-assured. But she will not be sharing palace confidences with her dinner companions nor making anything but the politest prattle ("The salmon is awfully good, don't you think?"). Charles and Diana are world-class illusionists, modern masters of the deflective gesture, hinting at intimacy while keeping their distance...