Word: breslin
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...Professionals’ taste was very complex. They used a lot of different techniques,” Breslin said. He qualified his praise, though, by saying that their mashed potatoes were “a little bit mushy...
Contestants presented each piece de resistance to a panel of judges that included Dean of the Summer School Robert Lue and HUDS Director of Culinary Operations Martin Breslin...
Contest judge and Assistant Dean of Quincy House Mike Rainen devoured the Professionals’ preparation with gusto, and an occasional raised eyebrow from Breslin suggested that a consensus was brewing...
...Breslin sets most of his action in the early '70s, after Owney returns from Viet Nam. His war experiences are locked inside him, and he has thrown away the key. He is literally and figuratively an underground man, emotionally detached from his family but bound by code and tradition to his brother sandhogs...
...comedy of class consciousness is only a distraction. Breslin is interested not in sociology but in evil. His Queens has more than its share of ethnic Snopeses, gangsters, murderers and thieves. These are the people who truly stimulate the author's descriptive instincts for the deadly sins. There is Old Jack, for example, "who pushed drugs for tens of thousands with the same fervor as he filched a newspaper from a candy store," or Charlie O'Sullivan, an ex-baseball player and contract killer who swings a deadly bat. That these and other characters do not have much...