Word: swing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweltering summer afternoon, 200 people are gathered around a delivery van parked on a dusty side street in downtown Bucharest. The vehicle's doors swing open, and all 200 seem to surge forward at once. As six blue-uniformed militiamen armed with automatic weapons struggle to hold back the crowd, a salesclerk begins parceling out portions of a coveted commodity: frozen 1-lb. chunks of chicken gizzards, heads and feet. In minutes the meager supply is exhausted, and fistfights erupt among disappointed customers. Moments later the van drives off, and the throng disperses...
...Isadora. This new sensation has opened opposite the Superdome just in time for the convention. Isadora, as in Duncan, is art deco inspired, with etched glass, white papier-mache palm trees and piped-in swing music for dancing. Service is a bit rough around the edges, but the inventive Creole- Cajun dishes are generally successful. Among the best: sauteed sweetbreads with poached quail eggs, crayfish ravioli with scallops and tarragon sauce, and a basil-scented red snapper and crab meat with lemon-Cognac sauce that is this city's only good papillote creation...
Murphy is most convincing when he tries to put the Fortas affair into a historical context, rather than a crassly political one. He notes that Fortas fell victim to what amounted to a swing of the pendulum in American politics, when the "whales" of the Senate saw their power pass away to a younger generation and when the liberalism of LBJ and JFK was replaced by a conservatism of which we may only now be seeing the last vestiges...
Summer Jazz '88 continues in Marblehead with the music of Clarinetist Dick Johnson and the Swing Shift on Friday at the Unitarian-Universalist Church, 80 Washington St. Tickets for the weekly program start at $10.50 in advance and $11.50 at the door. The concert begins at 8 p.m. Call...
...tenderloin marinated in chimichurri -- fresh chopped parsley, olive oil, garlic and spices. On a Saturday night at Versailles, the undisputed palace of Cuban cooking in the heart of Little Havana, Anglo couples slurp mamey milk shakes made from a sweet tropical fruit, while Cuban workmen just off the swing shift savor the fresh roast pork, sweet fried plantains and black beans...