Word: suppers
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DIED. Mabel Mercer, 84, reigning queen of cabaret singers for nearly 70 years, whose unsurpassed ability to turn even the most banal tune into a timeless vignette of love and loss delighted generations of supper-club audiences; of heart disease; in Pittsfield, Mass. Born in England of a white English mother and black American father, Mercer gained renown at Bricktop's Paris café in the 1930s and went to the U.S. in 1939. As her husky contralto began to fail, she honed her unique blend of cadenced speech and vocalizing, delivering such songs...
...first night is spent at Tersef, 100 miles north of N'Djamena. Supper is served in a hut of branches and millet straw. Everyone eats from the same dish, though there is little but hard gristle and bone. "We have no ranks," says Abdul Osman, 21. "We are all combatants, we are all volunteers." His job is to teach reading and writing to the troops. After supper he conducts a lesson: "Maman est tres belle .. . Maman a une belle robe . .. Bonjour, maman." Since there are 300 different languages in Chad, French is the lingua franca...
...best efforts, Speakes, last week hinted at the possible firing of Martin S. Feldstein, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. The press secretary made fun of Feldstein's name, and speculated that the Chairman, who was then at a high-level economic luncheon, was at a "last supper," at which he might not last "through dessert...
...been excluded from a high level economic luncheon that was going on at the time. When a reporter noted that Feldstein was in fact in attendance, Speakes gallantly sent an aide to find out why. When the aide returned, Speakes read his note silently, mouthing the words "last supper" to the general mirth of those in attendance. Reporters then asked Speakes to read would the contents of the note--the Secretary refused...
...chairman was invited to a lunch to talk about the budget and snidely asserted that Feldstein might not "make it to dessert." Richard G. Darman, another White House aide joined the baiting when he sent Speakes a note during the conference implying the meal was the chairman's "last supper." Though Reagan himself did not sanction the performance--he was reportedly furious about it--he conspicuously did not rush to Feldstein's defense. And Reagan's willingness to allow advisers to humiliate Feldstein while keeping him on is inappropriate...