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...governs. In his great biography of Stalin, Adam Ulam surmises that Stalin's sadism and recreation were allied. Stalin reveled in all-male, all-night banquets populated by middle-aged cronies drinking themselves witless and engaging in practical jokes. Among Stalin's favorites were placing a tomato on a chair about to be sat in and pushing friends into ponds. One can only imagine the hilarity and camaraderie at such occasions. One can also imagine the recognition on the faces of Stalin's former drinking buddies when at the purge trials they beheld the old zany spirit...
...exception of military hardware, which is flown in, Iraq's supplies must arrive by land routes from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Result: astronomical consumer prices. A quart bottle of drinking water costs $25. If you are desperate for Scotch, a fifth will cost you $300. One small tomato sells for $12. After a mediocre meal in a Baghdad restaurant the other night, four foreign diplomats split the bill...
Even pretentious people like pizza, and at Bel Canto 928 Mass Ave.) you can ruin a perfectly good mound of grease and tomato sauce with bean sprouts or broccoli. The pies themselfs are exemplary. Other options are all within a couple hundred yards of the Yard. Harvard Pizza and Pinnochio's for quick service, Uno's for a full meal; deep-dish Chicago-style and Regine's for lukewarm cardboard...
...pink-cheeked waiter whose wife has stitched his name in yarn across his jacket, takes charge of what Banchet has labeled "Le Show," wafting a silver platter laden with treasures under the noses of the astonished Horns. There is a colorful vegetable pate studded with bits of broccoli and tomato as bright as jewels. A paupiette of smoked salmon filled with fluffy crab mousse. A lobster sausage served with two sauces-one made with sea urchins, the other with lobster. "They've shown us eight things already," giggles Judy Horn. "I shall never be able to remember which...
...ambitious land reform program begun two years ago. It is planting time at El Canadá, but the cooperative has been unable to obtain credit to buy seed and fertilizer. The fields are fallow, the oxen idle. No one has yet received a day's pay. Unless the tomato and corn crops are planted in the next week or two, there will be no harvest this year...