Word: waldorf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what almost undermined Leslie Revsin, a chef at the Barbizon Hotel in Manhattan. She recalls that men rushed to help her with any heavy task, even when she didn't need help. Revsin managed, however, and in 1972 became the first female "kitchen man" and then chef at the Waldorf-Astoria, an event that prompted headlines in local newspapers...
...types were offered: Rjanog, a sour rye, and Borodinsky, a sweeter bread - flavored with coriander. The so-called peace bread was also being offered to customers at the posh Waldorf-Astoria hotel and the Russian Tea Room. U.S. entrepreneur Fred Kayden arranged the imports after 7 1/2 months of negotiations with Soviet officials and a "perestroika entrepreneur" in Moscow. But Kayden may not have a black-bread monopoly for long. Zaro's Bread Basket, a New York City bakery chain, plans to start selling imported Soviet bread for $5 a loaf. Would Muscovites pay that kind of price for Wonder...
...Perhaps madame would care for carrot cake, or a latte macchiato, or some nice kosher chocolates. Perhaps m'sieur and madame would also like to walk through the doors at the back of the lobby and catch Eddie Murphy Raw. For this is not the Stork Club or the Waldorf in a scene from some posh old Hollywood romance. It is a movie house in Toronto or New York City or Los Angeles. It is surely a clue to the way Garth Drabinsky -- the dynamic, disputatious boss of the Cineplex Odeon theater chain -- wants you to see movies...
...Says David E. Davis Jr., editor of Automobile magazine: "GM could turn it around with one humdinger of an automobile." Several humdingers may have been on display last week, but the real test for GM will come in thousands of dealer showrooms, not in the ballrooms of the Waldorf...
...commission recommends bold regulatory action to prevent a recurrence of Black Monday just as the Dow Jones industrial average falls more than 140 points, its second worst day since the crash. -- On world currency markets, the dollar moves in a startling new direction: upward. -- GM wows 'em at the Waldorf...