Word: yellowness
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...created in larger-than-life versions to command top dollar. Says Baum: "Above a certain price, the public wants to see evidence of skill, and dishes they do not think they can make at home." Adds Barbara Clifford, the Texas-born chef partner in Manhattan's Yellow Rose Cafe: "My mother made home-fried potatoes swimming in oil. That's a little too down-home...
...David Stockman sits and scrawls on his yellow legal pad all his tart recollections of how things really work in the Reagan White House, he is earning about $2,200 an hour. Figuring, that is, that the departing Budget Director is toiling away eight hours every day to produce by his Dec. 1 deadline the blockbuster book for which Harper & Row has just given him a prodigious advance of $2 million plus. A handsome sum indeed, enough to pay about five minutes' worth of the deficit in the Administration's own federal budget for this year. It would have taken...
...Ireland Tom King arrived at Belfast city hall for a luncheon, he had to run a gauntlet of angry Protestants who pushed him, threw eggs and hurled insults. The Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the militantly Protestant Democratic Unionist Party, denounced King as "a white-livered cur" and "a yellow-bellied coward." On Saturday, tens of thousands of Protestants converged on the city hall, where they set aflame the Irish tricolor and an effigy of Thatcher...
...Crack, craack, craaaack," booms the sound through the rain forest. As the yellow 60-ton bulldozers smash ahead, one 70-ft. okoume tree after another trembles, then teeters and finally topples. With each fall, the jungle itself seems to shiver: venomous black and green mambas slither to safety through walls of vines; gorillas caper away in terror; mauve, violet and golden butterflies settle like confetti on the dozers, or bulls, as the workers call them. Finally, as dusk settles in, a single tree remains in the clearing, a majestic 120-ft. hardwood. Their 450-h.p. engines screaming, shrouded in black...
Every evening at 8, one of the French TV networks, Antenne 2, begins its news broadcast in the same way. Eight close-up pictures, framed in lurid yellow appear on the screen, one after the other. As they go by, the anchorman says in an understated voice, "Tonight the French hostages, including the members of the Antenne 2 news team--Philippe Rochot, Georges Hansen, Aurel Cornea, Jean-Louis Normandin--have still not been released." Only then does the news begin...