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Starting down Mt. Auburn Street, you discover that Cahaly's Market is offering 7c off on Gravy Train. The Harvard Food Services was unavailable for comment. But if it's food you're after, go directly to the Bick, where the window proclaims "Prices Slashed!" You can get, among other things, fishcakes and beans for 70 cents-but only on Friday. The rest of the week you have...
PERRY WASHES dishes at the Bick and drinks whiskey when he's not busy...
Some big shot from the Hayes-Bickford chain showed up at the Bick a couple of weeks ago and gave Perry shit for drinking on the job. But Perry didn't take it: "I do my work," he said. The big shot threatened to fire him, but Perry continued to act insubordinate...
ROBERT BLY was in Cambridge one Saturday last spring. He wasn't giving a reading, no poetry conferences had been proposed; he was simply visiting friends. He spent the afternoon in the Grolier Bookshop and the Bick, and the evening in an apartment on Beacon Hill, reading from a long unpublished poem to an audience of four...
...next stop was the Bick. I ordered their $1.50 steak for protein, and turned down the guy's offer of french fries and a roll three times. I sat down with my steak and surveyed the list of entrants in the Marathon, printed in the newspaper. I went through all 1100 of the runners without finding my name. Trouble. I started through again, and finally, there I was, number 527. Now I was psyched...