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...plays Deep Purple and the waitresses have names like Agnes and Gladys and the menu harks back to the Age of Steak; a place where a fiftyish couple can enjoy a Manhattan and tuck into a chunk of cow and au gratin potato. Murray's serves the Silver Butter Knife Steak for Two. That's the special, and it's been around since I was learning to read--I saw it advertised on billboards around town. I'd form the words MURRAY'S and SILVER BUTTER KNIFE STEAK phonetically, and say them aloud as we passed, and the mystery...
...have gone back about once every three or four years, and the magic seems never to wear off, the sight of the pink drapes, the mirrors, the candelabrum sconces, the red plush chairs, the candles flickering on the white linen--it still elates me, the Silver Butter Knife feels like a bright sword in my hand. And last year I returned with four old friends and my wife Jenny. It was one of the happiest nights I can remember, everyone yakking and laughing, eating steak, drinking a big booming red wine, feeling flush and lovable. And then I went back...
...gone forever--the Burlington Zephyr and the North Coast Limited, the New Yorker of my youth, Memorial Stadium where we spent Saturday afternoons cheering for the Golden Gophers, the Earle Brown farm that was turned into a mall and a subdivision--I think of the SILVER BUTTER KNIFE STEAK FOR TWO, looming above me on a billboard, our car stopped at a red light on Lyndale Avenue in 1952, the Bible on my lap open to Ecclesiastes, my head anointed with Wildroot hair oil, and I feel restored. Some glories remain. You for sure, and me, perhaps, and, absolutely, Murray...
...first campaign for Governor by bashing incumbent Jim Florio for his tax hikes and pledging that she would reverse the trend. While income taxes were cut, her failure to control property taxes and auto insurance rates undercut her credibility. As any consumer knows, cheaper peanut butter is no bargain if jelly and bread still cost a fortune...
Kunz published her third book, Butter and Guns: America's Cold War Economic Diplomacy, a month after recommendation letters solicited from other scholars on Kunz's behalf were due to the Senior Appointments Committee, according to Smith...