Word: macaroni
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Toward evening, we walked through the chemical-factory housing complex. One food store that we went into was empty. There was nothing but cans of sprats - and packages of macaroni in one food shop we visited. "The store is empty," I joked. "There are just people here...
...just a question of what kind of conveniences residents need. Macaroni and cheese, no more. Now you can head over to Barsamian's to pick up a pound of Scottish smoked salmon for $26.50 or some rabbit pate for $9.58. Next stop: Videosmith, where local residents can drop off their Master-cards and rent the latest French film ($2.75 a day plus tax) to watch on their video cassette recorders...
...hybrid of 60 Minutes and MTV, co-hosts "Alex" Lyubimov, 26, and "Dima" Zakharov, 30, prefer what they jokingly call the "rough and macho" look. They wear T shirts and blue jeans. At times they may seem a bit cocky, inviting viewers to send in such oddities as leaden macaroni mixes or bread loaves containing glass chips for their "museum of shoddy goods." But they are as earnest as Molchanov in exploring the boundaries of glasnost...
Elvis Presley throbs from the jukebox as bobby-soxed waiters and waitresses improvise dance steps between servings. A young business crowd samples such unautomated Automat classics as fish cakes, macaroni and cheese, and chicken pot pie, all of which, alas, pale beside memories of the originals. The menu also includes diet-destroying desserts like the $12.95 "Kitchen Sink" sundae. Dine-O-Mat's gravy has the consistency of fudge sauce, but the mashed potatoes are good, and the trip back in time is sustaining...
...small, simple rooms of the White House is apt to please him. He does not like ostentation. So the Reagan folks will ply their important visitor with plain native dishes like Maryland crab and pumpkin pie. CIA analysts believe Gorbachev's alimentary canal can handle even Reagan's favorite, macaroni and cheese. But will he be able to digest the Prince of Darkness, Richard Perle, who is scheduled to attend the state dinner? In Geneva, Gorbachev cooled at the sight of Perle, the former Assistant Secretary of Defense and a powerful skeptic about Soviet intentions for the past 20 years...