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Charlie runs two places in the Square: Charlie's Place (1 Bow St.) and Charlie's Kitchen (10 Eliot St.). Both attract a lot of high school kids out on their first drinking flings. But Charlie's Kitchen has probably the best bar food in the Square. Upstairs there is always room for groups of seven to ten people and the food is definitely a cut above greasy spoon quality...
...space on the stage and around the dancers themselves. Haydée oozes elegantly across the floor on her bottom like a geometric snake, slithering effortlessly upward, feet first and legs spread, over Cragun's waiting shoulders. Tetley amazingly seems to have taught his dancers how to bow their hips into trompe l'oeil convex forms. The two couples slide through a visual glissando of sexual exercises so explicit yet so subtle in execution that the intimacies never shock -except perhaps with the revelation of the extreme possibilities of what a dancer's body can be made...
...better historian than other men, Jules Michelet once observed, it is because I have a larger table. The French historian's graceful bow to the supremacy of broad and easily retrievable research over insight has now been carried to devastating extremes by the authors of this provocative book. Fogel, 47, is a professor of economics and history at the universities of Chicago and Rochester. Engerman, 38, is professor of economics and history at Rochester. Together they are the leading edge of a new wing of historians known as cliometricians because their methods marry Clio, the muse of history...
Time on the Cross is offered not as a complete history but as a corrective. The authors bow to the need for psychological studies. They are clearly aware that their statistical base is sometimes small and that their inferences about average well-being on the plantation is morally irrelevant to the outrage of slavery, the psychological anguish it caused, and the agonized voices of indi vidual slaves that have come down from the dark past. Yet the authors, generally moderate, are quite merciless when dealing with what they regard as the fumbling ignorance of Stampp, Elkins and Phillips...