Budapest bits

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     Greetings from Budapest, Hungary.  I must be staying in the Gary, Indiana side of town.

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MADARTEJ, MARIA TEREZIA COFFEE

     More "M" for the OED.
     THE BUDAPEST SUN, September 21-28, 2000, pg. 20, col. 3:

     At the end of the meal have a _Madartej_ (literally meaning bird's milk, vanilla ice cream done the Hungarian way) for dessert.

     A place here in Budapest serves "Maria Terezia Coffee"--double espresso coffee with whipped cream and cocoa powder.
     (More food and drink later.)

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LITERATI

     The New York Cafe is one of the best places in town.  It welcomed the "literati" over 100 years ago.  I don't know if OED has any Hungarian-related "literati" cites.

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ESCORT SERVICES

     There are "escort services" advertised here.  No one gives "bodywork," as in the Village Voice.
     "Erotik Camping" legalized brothels started a month ago, and a week ago the Shiva Association, "the first nationwide association for the protection of prostitutes," began.  Shiva--as in Ganesh?

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CAPPUCCINO SUITS

     Cappuccino suits?  Can drip-dry clothing be far behind?
     From the NEW YORK OBSERVER, 25 September 2000, pg. 31, col. 2:

_NO CAPPUCCINO SUITS_
     "Updated conservative" is how Joseph Bonafede, a men's suit specialist at Bloomingdale's, describes the Joseph Abboud look.
     (Col. 3--ed.)  But an Abboud suit is no "cappuccino suit," Mr. Bonafede said, referring to some edgier DKNY suits favored more by the downtown man than the Joseph Abboud man.

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TAKE AWAY THE PUNCH BOWL

     I don't recall seeing this phrase recorded.
     From the NEW YORK OBSERVER, 25 September 2000, pg. 30, col. 5:

     "Head in the sand before a crisis, intervention after the fact," the Fed squandered an opportunity to dscipline financial markets: what central bankers of a previous generation called "taking away the punch-bowl."

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SUPPLY-ENHANCING SHOCK

     Shock on.
     From the FINANCIAL TIMES, 22 September 2000, pg. 27, col. 8:

     Also, Goldman Sachs believes, the impact --or "supply-enhancing shcok"--of B2B commerce could be larger in Asia than elsewhere.

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IFI

     More acronyms.
     From the FINANCIAL TIMES, 22 September 2000, pg. 21, col. 6:

     ...international financial institutions (IFIs)...

     If international financial institutions are if-ey, then we're all in trouble.