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...controversy has predictably whet the public's appetite for the scheduled spring premiere of Miss Saigon. "Undeniably, this whole business has been good in terms of publicity for the show," Feldman says. "There still haven't been any ads in the New York Times for ticket sales--but that isn't worrisome...
...diners at ground level. In a novel promotion, JAL has opened its own restaurant, complete with a genuine cabin crew. Customers at the Osaka restaurant pay as much as $75 apiece to savor such in-flight specialties as flounder steamed in wine and red snapper stuffed with crayfish. To whet their appetite for travel, JAL has patrons enter a replica of a Boeing 767 cabin to watch a 5-min. videotape that highlights JAL destinations. Reservations for the restaurant, which will be open until September at Osaka's flower exposition, can be booked through the airline's ticketing system...
...accounts, Bhutto's father was a strong influence on her. While still an undergraduate at Harvard, Bhutto accompanied the late prime minister on his official trips abroad. In 1972, her father introduced her to the late Indian Minister Indira Gandhi--it was a visit that whet Benazir's appetite for government...
...Korea a special meal starts with a colorful tray of kujolpan, morsels of meat and vegetables to whet the appetite. This show is kujolpan for the 177 1/ 2-hour feast to follow...
...meal are worth the cost. There is stiff competition between take-out sources, so much so that last year New York's D'Agostino chain hired a graduate chef from the Culinary Institute of America to oversee its new prepared-food operation. With such talent, D'Agostino hopes to whet the appetites -- and curiosity -- of New Yorkers accustomed to such entrenched take-out sources as Balducci's, Grace's Marketplace and upscale supermarkets. Raley's in Northern California, out to trim fat profits from local Chinese restaurants, placed five chefs at a hot-wok counter to stir-fry such wonders...