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...There are more examples - more, perhaps than anyone wants to admit - of countries whose rudeness is not shut away in a dark cellar but brought to light and celebrated as an attribute. The Germans? So rude that they even find themselves unbearable, hence all those holidays that involve drinking too much beer. The Swiss? Rude in a unique hodgepodge sort of way, combining the worst characteristics of the Germans and the French. If you haven't been told off by a grouchy Swiss chocolate maker, you haven't lived. Fantastic...
...place could be seen in "All About Eve" and Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man" - but you could find plenty of notables inside El Morocco ("Elmo's," at 2nd Avenue and 54th Street) and The "21" Club (founded in 1921 at 21 West 52nd), with its wine cellar protected by a two-ton door, and (further west on 52nd) Toots Shor, the favorite of sportsmen and serious drinkers like Jackie Gleason. Naturally, America needed arbiters to decide which of these people with too much money and way too much free time were worth the reader's notice. That...
Particularly illustrative of this delicate balance is a scene where Leahy, urged to lie about the dead bodies in her cellar, indignantly exclaims that she refuses to “tell a fib.” Leahy conveys the strength of a woman who cares about living truthfully and decently and has somehow reconciled multiple murders with her sense of moral integrity...
Dartmouth and Penn—not 2001 Ivy cellar team Princeton—were supposed to be Harvard’s toughest challenge, yet the Tigers were the team that dealt Harvard its only Ivy loss. In that game, the Crimson turned a nine-point halftime deficit into a four-point lead late in the game, but couldn’t win it. Embarressingly, the team was outrebounded 43-29 by the Tigers...
Saturday night, the Crimson must avoid overlooking perennial cellar-dweller Cornell (3-16, 0-6 Ivy), whom Harvard has beaten in the last four meetings...