Word: cafes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...endure the endless fawning upon the monarchs of the cafe kingdom, there is some superlative photography. Candice Bergen, for example, has produced a haunting study of Joel Schumacher, who wrote the screenplays for Car Wash and is currently working on a film version of The Wiz. The accompanying interview, with Liz Smith, is in a seemingly unedited question-and-answer format that often rambles, full of generalities. In this case, however, writer and subject are friends of long standing so they have a rapport lacking in some of the other pieces. You may not agree with Schumacher's most profoundly...
...seven satellite stations. Audio-visual machines and bilingual signs help guide lost passengers. Longest walk: 750 ft. Baggage, immigration and customs: fast. Hotels/Motels: sparse. Sofitel-Jacques Borel within airport boasts the best view for the Concorde takeoff, another hotel 1 ¼ miles away. Amenities: superb. Le Bistrot sidewalk cafe; five restaurants. Best: Maxim's. Four bars, open 24 hr. Arcade of tax-free boutiques on transit floor offers every brand of French perfume (20% off), watches, scarves, jewelry, liquor, luggage, pâté, etc. Barbershop and beauty salon. First-aid station. Overall: functional but sans joie de vivre...
...does not pay the cafe's outrageous bills for the impassive waiters, the richly aromatic coffee or the proximity to Bergdorf's and Saks, or even for the Bavarian chocolate cake or the fresh strawberries sinking into whipped cream castles in the middle of February. The fee is for the privilege of engaging in one of America's favorite sports: gazing at the idle rich. Americans are notorious people watchers, and every afternoon between 3:30 and 4:00, the Fifth Avenue window shopper swarm into the Palm Court, trying to casually blend in with the Fifth Avenue shoppers, surreptitiously...
...begging money from every friend made in 22 years of preaching, for he believes that "some way God will provide." The parishioners, who set up a three-member town board, have the skills to rebuild the place, he explains. A store and restaurant will raise capital. The refurbished Country Cafe is already open, complete with no-smoking signs, five paintings of Jesus, and delicious homemade pies. Martha Morris, 27, cleaning up heaps of reeking garbage at her new home, knows that her husband has no job and unemployment is high in the area, but she believes that "the Lord didn...
...boho crowd. In Cambridge, it hangs out at the Algiers Cafe under the Brattle St. Theater, at Piroschka's on Dunster St., and at Pamplona on Bow St. All three places have tables outdoors and pretentious conversation...