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...without such a grand coalition, and this time Democrats--who had spent six years complaining about Republican giveaways to the rich--were calling the shots. Even the Bush Administration supported payment limits. During speeches to farm groups, Johanns kept displaying maps of all the subsidy recipients on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue...
...guava and cheese sandwich may seem like a strange combination, but its contrasting flavors satisfy pretty much any craving. 4. Finale, Burdick’s, and the Barker Center Café (Three-Way Tie): What’s wrong with each of these places? The first is too swank, the second is too crowded, and the third is too close to class for comfort. They all do have their advantages, though: Finale’s Illy coffee is dependable and the desserts are legendary. Burdick’s hot chocolate is wonderfully thick and rich, in contrast to the insipid...
...Restaurant Daniel in New York City) produced Wild Scottish Grouse with Sarawak Pepper Cromesquis; and Thomas Keller came out with Four Story Hill Farm Cuisse de Poularde with King Richard Leeks, Spice-Poached pruneaux d'Agen and Black Winter Truffle Coulis. Renowned pastry chef Pierre Herme, who runs swank tea rooms and boutiques in Paris and Tokyo, came up with dessert...
...Diana and Al Fayed and receiving details about that fatal night during briefings in London last week, the six women and five men accompanied Judge Baker to Paris Monday to get a firsthand view of the route that led the couple to their deaths. That journey began at the swank Ritz Hotel on the Place Vendome, and continued to the Place de la Concorde and the unscheduled rendezvous with the press pack waiting to pounce. The jurors were then driven by bus down the long, straight expressway that eventually dips underground at the Pont d'Alma - the tunnel where Diana...
...Darjeeling program includes a related 13-min. film, Hotel Chevalier. Schwartzman's Jack seems uneasy when he gets a call from an ex-girlfriend (Natalie Portman) who insists on showing up in his swank hotel room. He draws a bubble bath for her. They flirt and parry and wind up in bed, exchanging dialogue that we hear again, at the end of Darjeeling, as part of a story Jack has written. It's a beguiling vignette that, as Closer and My Blueberry Nights did, shows Portman as a comic actress in fresh bloom. I wish that she, and some...