Word: chicken
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FEEL the same way about a one night stand after you see Letter to Brezhnev, a little-publicized sleeper from the British Isles now in limited release around Boston. The story of two young women from the gray, depressing city of Liverpool where the largest local employer is a chicken processing plant, Letter focuses on Elaine (Alexandra Pigg) and Theresa's (Margie Clark) quest for adventure and escapist relief from their normally drab lives...
Dissatisfied by their lives--one is unemployed and the other spends her days "ripping out chicken guts and stuffing them into little plastic bags"--the two girls dream about the elusive "something better" which, as always but perhaps correctly, centers around some new romantic conquest...
...main reason to go to the Kong is to eat greasy Chinese food. The chicken fingers are extraordinary when washed down with alcohol. A summer stint in Cambridge is probably not enough time to try all 69 types of beer they serve here, but it still may be worth the effort...
...indulging in its exports." But even then, apolitical American targets are not always off limits. After the U.S. bombing of Libya in April, a mob in Barcelona stoned a local McDonald's. Last year Peruvian Marxists sprayed graffiti and burned tables at three of Lima's five Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants...
...Most familiar among workaday sandwiches are the coffee-shop regulars: bacon, lettuce and tomato, tuna or egg salad, the classic combo of ham and Swiss cheese, grilled cheese and bacon and the lavish club, a three-slice pileup with two "decks" of filling that at its purest includes sliced chicken, bacon, tomato and lettuce. Less orthodox but currently more fashionable in New York City is the $22 club sandwich at the American restaurant Arcadia, where chunks of lobster replace chicken--never mind that the abundance of toast, bacon, tomato and lettuce muffles the lobster's delicate flavor...