Word: taco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Queen Mary is berthed in the harbor at Long Beach, a tourist attraction. She has a restaurant astern called Sir Winston's. The menu is in French. Under dessert you find "tuile aux fraises, "with no English translation. You summon a waiter, whose name is Juan. "French taco," Juan explains, "with strawberries...
Schwartz shamelessly takes ideas from friends' experiences. Says the writer: "It's easier to find new friends "than new columns." She also digs a working woman's elbow into dippy socialites and celebrity puritans like Diet Doctor Nathan Pritikin, whom she took to a Dallas taco joint. While he showed her how to eat healthily even there, she thought ravenously of "guilty nachos." Discovering Orlando, Fla., Schwartz announced, "Forget singles bars, forget computer matchmaking, forget gourmet dating clubs. If you want to meet a man, head straight for Disney World . . . I was there last week...
...Jose's Plate-one taco, one cheese enchilada, one beef-bean burrito, Mexican rice, frijoles, salad, $15.75.) But thriving exacts some cost in the Arctic Circle. "It's tough up here," says Fran, who lived in a garage on a dirt floor in 1977-she, two dachshunds and an electric heater. The inside temperature was 31°F below zero. She ran an outfit called Speedy Secretary then, but an IBM salesman blew through town, sold everybody a copier and put her out of business. "You can't run across the street to the hardware store...
...first call comes in before 9. "Army opportunities, Sergeant Yasenak. May I help you?" A young woman, looking for the number of the Navy recruiter. "Sure, sure, no problem." The next one, a bona fide Army prospect, is guided to the office by way of a teen-age landmark, Taco Time, about 150 yds. away. When Yasenak gets a local collect call, a regular thing, he looks knowing and amused: the Washington State Penitentiary is in Walla Walla, and inmates must reverse all phone charges. "The guy said, Take me, I'm yours!' " He will...
...Antonio, Reagan spent 45 minutes with a flag-waving crowd of 1,000 people, including some 500 Hispanic Americans; he sipped lemonade, munched on a guacamole taco, and expounded on his economic and Central American policies. In Phoenix, he told some 4,000 enthusiastic members of the National Rifle Association that "we will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family." Throughout the trip, Reagan looked and behaved very much like an undeclared candidate for reelection. As one of his aides put it, "The more we touch constituent bases, the more evident it is that...