Word: pheasant
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...ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68° all year. Air conditioning is one of the serious accomplishments of the 20th century. It produced the Sunbelt. The enclosed suburban shopping mall prefigures those cities of the future that will be entirely domed, like a pheasant under glass. No seasonal variations need be endured...
...rack of lamb (and 1966 Château Lafite-Rothschild) to a hot heap of chiles rellenos and refried beans. Banquets? In Los Angeles, the Queen ate papaya and heard George Burns tell jokes about octogenarian sex; at an official dinner in Golden Gate Park, goose-liver quenelles in pheasant broth were followed by the San Francisco Opera and Symphony performing a bit of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. A run on velvets and silks? For just one movie-studio dinner, velvet and silk and chiffon were turned into half a million dollars' worth of dresses; custom-made hats...
...Then he retires to his country home in Oyster Bay, Long Island, and renews his acquaintance with Sally, his third wife, who is director of the Jeffrey II ballet troupe, and their two sons, 14 and twelve. He putters in the garden, raises such wild game as pheasant and quail in his duck pond and plays tennis. He also listens to music, the kind that soothes and softens a Sunday. Chamber music, of course...
...fruits; and milk-fed baby lamb, traditionally tendered at Easter, accompanied by egg and lemon sauce. A savory pork roast in pizza dough was invented by Bettoja's husband Angelo, who also prescribed the wines throughout. There are surprisingly few game dishes, but Angelo did contribute a rustic pheasant pate. Desserts include a chocolate and amaretti pie from Parma and one lavish sweet, Sicilian cassata: lemon cake lopped with a heady mixture of rum, chocolate and ricotta. The baking of this elaborately decorated cassata is so distracting a labor that in 1575 the Roman Catholic Church forbade nuns...
...Kentucky word to describe the weary, or that nutation is the wobble in the earth's axis caused by the pull of the moon? Who remembers that there was a time when the head of the house didn't simply carve the roast but allayed a pheasant, reared a goose, minced a plover, dismembered a hen or disfigured a peacock...