Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indiscriminating reader" ("As a graduate student I used to have some notion of what was acceptable--now anything that has sentences in it has potential use for a teacher of writing") speaks with obvious fondness of his experience at Manhattanville. Asked to recall his "best memories," he mentions eating breakfast in the school dining room, reading and talking with students as they drifted in. "Or I'd be in my office late at night working and people who saw my light on would come in an keep me from doing anything productive for hours--I loved those quiet hours...
...floor of the World Trade Center, finished their meals by candlelight and rode to the ground on a service elevator that was served by an emergency generator. But 35 people were stranded for the night on the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. After a free breakfast provided by the building's management, half of them walked down the stairs to the ground, while the others waited until the elevators began operating again Thursday afternoon...
...large bone pin in her hair was loose. When it finally fell, Powell scooped it up, rushed to the park and -confidence restored-tripled his first time up. Al Lopez, who was a National League catcher in the '30s and '40s, once ate kippered herring for breakfast 18 days in a row trying to preserve a batting streak that lasted 17 days...
...Star Wars to a tatter. The day's second rendition of 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall has petered out at bottle No. 37. Now sullen silence prevails, punctuated only by stage whispers to the effect that some parents feed their kids, for cryinoutloud. Egg McMuffined for breakfast, Burger Kinged at lunch and Stuckeyed in between, the little ones are hungry again. For that matter, Mom and Dad deserve another break today. A pit stop is called for. Time...
...noon, and Sam Peckinpah is in a good mood when he arrives on the set. "I had half a can of beer for breakfast," he whispers, "and it tasted great!" Why does the director of so many he-man shoot-'em-ups whisper? No one has ever dared to ask, but as a technique it has its advantages. When Peckinpah whispers, people cup their ears and listen-or they may not be around for whisper No. 2. The mortality rate on the ordinary Peckinpah picture is about half that of lemmings in leap year...