Word: sherbets
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Between courses, in truly Lucullan meals, the diner may be served a bit of sherbet "to refresh the palate." Yet in feasting on art, the viewer usually plunges from room to room, and his retinas, unrefreshed between rich courses, cry for cool relief. Such, at least, seems to be the art-gastronomy theory of José Luis Sert, dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design; as the architect of a new museum in the south of France, he solves this and a number of other gallerygoers' problems...
Sert's design uses concrete, native stone and small bricks, and his plan stretches the museum along the irregular curves and rises of the hill. Rooms are devoted to works of different artists, and the sherbet is provided by "reposing spaces" between galleries, where visitors can "wash their eyes" of Chagall, say, before attacking Kandinsky. For a few minutes' peace, they may gaze into pools filled with rain water caught by gigantic rooftop scoops...
...deference to teetotaling Mormon George Romney, his aides stuck strictly to sherbet punch during Michigan's Republican convention. But by convention's end, they could probably have used a real drink. Heckled by opposition within his own party, Romney had lost his temper and slashed out at Democrats in a fashion that was likely to haunt...
...models, snapped wide belts around everything-even evening dresses (Balmain, who dresses Thailand's Queen Sirikit, belted a wedding gown). Apart from sex, the only other area of general agreement in Paris was color. Apricot was very big, followed by orange, yellow and the so-called sherbet colors...
...cocktail hour, the WCTU is propagandizing for the "hour of social freedom," at which men and women may relax over beverages such as Top o' the Mornin' Punch (5 cups pineapple juice, 1 cup lemon juice, 3 cups water, 1 qt. ginger ale and 3 pts. lime sherbet), or the Pick-Me-Up (6 tbs. of chocolate syrup, 2 eggs. 2 cups fresh milk, serve in a frosted glass...