Word: trianon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disco combo, plus dance instructors to help unlimber the foxtrot generation; Thermo King's "Saloon," featuring the Great Jubilee Banjo Band and drawings for a radio-controlled miniature tractor-trailer for someone's lucky kid; and, of course, Mack Trucks' elegant soirée in the Trianon Ballroom, where a giant golden statue of its famous symbol, a bulldog, was displayed on the stage like an Inca god. At each convention Mack gives away 4,000 stuffed bulldogs, each year a little different; they are considered collectors' items. As a host at the Sears, Roebuck disco...
...true cook's tour of Paris that includes 15 hours of instruction from the chef of the Trianon Palace (no stars, alas, in the Guide Michelin...
...Soviet leader's Ilyushin-62 came to a stop at Orly last week, it was met by Pompidou, a red carpet, a 101-gun salute and clattering escorts of the mounted Garde Republicaine. Brezhnev and Wife Viktoria Petrovna were lodged in such a vast suite at the Grand Trianon in Versailles that Brezhnev jok ingly complained: "It takes me so long to go from my bedroom to the dining room that I may ask Mr. Pompidou for a vehicle." At the Trianon, Pompidou hosted a state dinner that included so many French wines and champagnes that Brezhnev...
...just as it has long since done away with the slime, the stench and the wanton slaughter of that noblest of human conflicts, World War I. Nostalgia is like Marie Antoinette, who commissioned the finest artists and architects of France to build eight picturesque peasant farms beside her Petit Trianon. They were perfect-right down to porcelain vases from Sevres used for milking the cows. Nostalgia selects only what is agreeable, and even that it distorts or turns into myth...