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Southerners also enjoy a legacy of shared celebration. From the epicurean crab feasts of Maryland's Eastern Shore to a catfish fry in Tennessee, from Texan barbecue orgies to the days-long shrimp or gumbo feasts of Louisiana's Cajun country, Southerners are united in their love of a party-and its morning-after reconstruction. An old New Orleans saying: "The rabbit says, 'Drink everything, eat everything, but don't tell everything...
...supreme ruler of the provinces in Manchuria. Kao reportedly committed suicide in a Peking prison after Teng's brutal denunciation of him at a 1955 Central Committee plenum. But if Teng is worried about any long knives, he has not shown it. He is even indulging his old epicurean tastes. Just recently his favorite Szechuanese restaurant in Peking, the Chengtu, reopened, and is packed daily. It had been closed since Teng fell into disgrace back...
CREAMER ALSO excels in capturing the lore of Ruth out-of-uniform. In "Kaleidoscope: Personality of the Babe," Creamer delves into a few feats which make the 714 and 60 homerun marks pall. He dredged up some of Babe's stunning epicurean exploits, including the mandatory "couple of hotdogs and a bicarb" immediately preceding every game. And several locker room observers, provide the definitive statement on Ruth's famed sexual prowess. Creamer dwells on the theme of Ruth's distorted sexuality throughout the book, in his usual lucid style...
Satyricon--A vile Fellini phantasmagoria based on Petronius but lacking the wit and lightness of the epicurean's touch. With Marat Sade, Peter Brook's sensational and sensationalistic production of the finally incoherent Peter Weiss play. CINEMA 733 (Thurs. and Fri.) Call 266-0342 for times...
...Iruna is the epicurean Eden of Cambridge...