Word: taro
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...along career-woman lines. Her first lover was a stockbroker, her only husband a famed Kabuki actor who later deserted her. After two leading wrestlers (as prestigious in Japan as bullfighters in Spain) staged a public match for her favors, she came to the attention of the Prime Minister, Taro Katsura, and became his mistress. Throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. O-Koi had a place in Katsura's inmost councils without betraying a single confidence...
...breakfast," he wistfully recalled last week. "Sometimes a can of corned beef. But my big meal was dinner." And at parties and luaus, he really let go, consuming three bowls of two-finger poi and "everything else on the table": kalua pig, pork laulau (pork and salmon wrapped in taro leaves), pulehu aku (dried fish), lomi (salmon, raw, with tomatoes and chopped onion), chicken luau, dried squid, raw fish and limu (chopped seaweed), baked breadfruit and baked taro, haupia (coconut pudding), all washed down with plenty of beer and soft drinks. Under the new regime, Peter cut down...
...grey paste made from the potato-like taro plant, and eaten with the fingers...
...covering the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Salote of Tonga (TIME, Dec. 28), Richard MacMillan recorded his choice menu: 4,200 roasted suckling pigs, 2,100 chickens, baked taro and yams, fresh pineapple, watermelon and bananas, shellfish and coconut milk...
...rich, talented American photographer named Robert Capa." French newspapers and magazines were first impressed with the nonexistent Capa's buildup. Then they were impressed with the pictures Andrè Friedmann sold them. He did so well selling them that he changed his name to Capa, married Gerda Taro, his pretty assistant, and went off to Spain to cover the civil war. After his wife was crushed to death by a retreating Loyalist tank, Capa left Spain to photograph the war in China...