Word: viscounts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...breads and doughs, sugar, cake decorating and, during this week, the complex and artful world of chocolate. The presiding guru is Herr Doktor Albert Kumin, 76, the Swiss dessert genius. Although he has never published a cookbook, in the rarefied world of professional chefs Kumin is regarded as a viscount of chocolate, a prince of pastry. He is the creator of the dessert menu at Manhattan's Four Seasons and a former White House pastry chef...
...pointlessly murders the driver. Takes forever! Much jollier is Manoel de Oliveira's The Cannibals, an opera film about some Portuguese aristocrats. It proceeds at a gentle lull for an hour, then explodes in a delicious orgy of artificial limbs, charred torsos and a family feast of roast viscount. Like David Lean, Oliveira turns 80 this year. Like Luis Bunuel, he makes gaily macabre films -- an old master's last laugh at life and death...
Conservative strategists spent the weekend analyzing thick printouts detailing the results from the 369 councils. Thatcher retired to Chequers, her official country residence, where she planned to meet with top political counselors, including Conservative Party Chairman Norman Tebbit, Deputy Prime Minister Viscount Whitelaw and Chief Whip John Wakeham. She reportedly intended to make a final decision early this week. If Thatcher's choice is for a snap election, she will inform her Cabinet, then ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve Parliament. The favored election date is June...
...avoid that fate, British lords have been known to give up their titles. Like Sir Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Viscount Stansgate, who gave up his title and most of his name (he goes by Tony Benn now) to keep his seat in the Commons. It's not clear what a comparable rule in this country might be, though a vow never to appear on Carson or eat at Elaine's would be a start...
Throughout the three-week campaign in the north Midlands mining and market town, Benn had stressed such traditional Labor issues as jobs and health care, avoiding any reference to his more radical positions. These include his firm opposition to the House of Lords (he legally renounced his title of Viscount Stansgate in 1963) and Britain's participation in NATO and the European Community. But on one issue Benn was unable to contain himself. Charging that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was planning to "destroy all unions," he condemned the government's decision to ban union membership at the supersecret...