Word: colombianizing
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...tanned, from the jet that had brought him home after his four-week, ten-nation tour of South America. The general bore an odd assortment of presents: an Argentine pony (asked De Gaulle when the presentation was made: "What does it eat?"), a Bolivian trumpet, Chilean spurs, a Colombian gold cigar box encrusted with emeralds (he does not smoke), and a Uruguayan whip appropriately inscribed, "Strike hard against the enemies of France." The return received dutiful top coverage by the state-owned television network, although the French had long since become bored with the general's marathon Latin solo...
...Grand Marniered pancake costs 75?, or India's chicken pakora and clay-oven-baked bread (45?) served on the lawn by a turbaned chef. International Plaza, a noisy cluster of small shops and food stands, offers a culinary Cook's Tour that takes only a few steps. Colombian tacos (75?) can be washed down with Philippine beer (70?), Ecuadorian banana dogs (50?) with Brazilian coffee (15?), Tunisian nougatine (45?) with Indian tea (free), North African bricka (65?) with Norwegian loganberry punch (40?). Although the Vatican has yet to provide a snack bar serving fish on Fridays, the American...
Some new graphics treat paper itself like a sculptor's bas-relief. Colombian-born Omar Rayo, 36, makes an inkless intaglio, such as From My Zoo, by building up patterned layers of cardboard coated with rabbit glue and gesso, then pressing wet paper under hundreds of pounds of pressure to emboss a white-on-white print. Boris Margo, 62, similarly makes a "cellocut" by carving into celluloid, coating it with copper, and stamping it into uninked paper...
...sharp drop in demand. But by charging as high as $62.37 a bag (132 lbs.), Brazil is asking more than the world market will bear. Aggressive African and Central American producers are busy underselling it, and Colombia has benefited from a successful U.S. ad campaign that features a winning Colombian coffee grower named Juan Valdez, thus helping to erode Brazil's longtime image as the world's coffee king...
...named Little John. Mecom lives with his wife and two daughters (he also has a married son) in a Frenchlike chateau in Houston, owns three cattle ranches and a private zoo of lions, zebras, gazelles and camels. A man who hardly hesitates before he plows $120 million into a Colombian oilfield, he is also known in hotels and restaurants on four continents as a lavish spender and tipper...