Word: souped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...birthday of his daughter with an intimate party for 100. The 20-ft.-long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were Moët & Chandon champagne ('59 and '61) and reds and whites from...
...perch, pike and rainbow trout swim in ornate marble fountains. Hamburg's 150-year-old L.W.C. Michelsen's offers a scientific index to its 1,000-odd spices, exhibits Australian apricots, French bread baked the same day in Paris-and, of all things, Heinz cream-of-mushroom soup. Rollenhagen's in West Berlin operates a year-round airlift of fresh strawberries, lettuce, mangoes, papaya and eggplant...
Questions of Understanding. Like Bonaparte, De Gaulle quickly discovered that the mere invasion of Russia -however glorious-is not tantamount to victory. On the night of his arrival, after a dinner of caviar, cucumber soup, and jellied deer's-tongue, De Gaulle struck his main theme: "France would like to see the harmful spell [of the cold war] broken and, at least as far as she is concerned, a beginning of new relations toward relaxation, harmony and cooperation with the East European states. Paris, in talking of this to the East, necessarily addresses itself to Moscow. The re-establishment...
Alloway Went Thataway. Just about every other group was, though (see color pages). In their late-Czarist pavilion, bearing a hammer and sickle, the Russians displayed their usual Soviet pop, in which Lenin portraits are repeated with the regularity and exactitude of Campbell's Soup cans. The Austrians laid claim to some sort of verbiage prize with an entry by one Curt Stenvert. It consisted of a gilded skeleton sharing a glass case with a sexy mannequin, knee high in artificial flowers and covered with photographed tattoos. Title: 38th Human Situation: As a Deceased Tycoon to bequeath your Charming...
...lady purrs: "Call me Yasmin-at least while you're in my bathroom." Boudoir comedy is not Peck's game, and he shows better form trying to explain to an enemy that there is nothing unusual about a folded slip of paper mysteriously afloat in his soup. Sophia, as the secret agent disguised in a $150,000 collection by Dior, fills a decorative role with golden warmth, and cannot be blamed if her superstar presence makes everything else in a film seem secondary...