Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wood-notes wild, the vibrato delivery, the blue-eyed conspiratorial beam have changed little since the first segment of The French Chef went out over the Boston area's WGBH-TV on Feb. 11, 1963. Only this time, as the camera closes in on stockpot and saute pan, cleaver and colander, the mistress of cuisine is not demonstrating the joy of Gallic cooking. Dinner at Julia's, her new 13-part public television series, which will start in October, celebrates American cooking, ingredients and wines with such dishes as poached Alaska salmon, duckburger with wild rice, California fish...
Other speakers have had trouble lately being heard in academe. Former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver, now, improbably, a conservative born-again Christian, was drowned out by several hundred screaming protesters when he tried to speak at the University of Wisconsin. Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani began a talk at Kansas State University. A roar of protest erupted from the back of the auditorium. The hall had to be cleared for 80 minutes...
...campaign, which encourages campus groups to uphold the rights of speakers by letting them carry out their remarks, was spurred by Kirkpatrick's withdrawl as commencement speaker at Smith College due to widespread student and faculty opposition. Former Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver and Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Z. Yamani have also recently cancelled addresses citing campus protests...
They did it by first building their business into three popular Phoenix-area restaurants called Garcia's and then selling out to Thomas Fleck, a founder of the California-based Cork 'N Cleaver chain, for $3 million in cash and notes in 1979. Fleck went public with Garcia's stock last year and has opened 14 new dining spots from San Diego to Des Moines since he bought the rights to the name. Garcia, 56, retired as chairman a year ago, but his wife, 53, still visits some kitchens and samples sauces...
...Afro-Americans have had, God knows, more than out fair share of political hustlers--from Marcus Garvey to Eldredge Cleaver--but they don't usually turn up as students at top-level law schools like Harvard Law. Then again, maybe they should be at places like Harvard Law, for, God knows, there have been enough white political hustlers--of every ethnic description, from Irish to WASP--around the place...