Word: pasta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will lead, readers are assured, to resolution in a promised final thriller, Spy Sinker. Will Fiona and Samson retire to a cottage in Cornwall and argue over lunch? More important, will Deighton or anyone else find a menace to replace the Wall? Lite politics, whole-wheat pasta and the melting of the polar ice caps are all alarming, but they don't quite do the job. A lot of fictional heroes with turned-up rain-coat collars must be worrying about their pensions...
...Prominently displayed in Chicago last week stood three 40-ft.-long containers loaded with food and medicine bound for Gdansk, Krakow and Warsaw. The desperately needed cartons of flour, baby food, pasta, antibiotics, surgical gloves and hospital linens are manifestations of one of the most profound changes brought about by Poland's dramatic opening to the West. A Polish government is at last receiving the enthusiastic support and recognition of "Polonia," as Poles who have left their homeland refer to the colonies they have established in other countries. In the week that brought Lech Walesa to the Windy City...
They are likely to keep calling as long as foodies like Wall Street banker Dwight Bush continue to indulge their taste for game. "It's something different from your basic pasta and pizza," Bush says. "It's an adventure...
Awakened by the letter's demands, my journalistic instincts took over. Why, I had to know, is the bread always stale? Why is the pasta so greasy? Why are the servers at the Harvard Union so surly? And for heaven's sake, what is a "Hoppin' John...
Deep Throat then offered some other inside knowledge of the Organization's methods. He explained, for example, how the HDS cooks casually apply oil to various dishes. Neither of us could fathom The Organization's motive in greasing our pasta as if it were a wheel bearing rather than a plate of noodles...