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...Governor of New York, it was almost as disorienting as if William ("the Refrigerator") Perry were to announce he was switching from football to tennis. For almost two decades Kissinger and foreign affairs have been synonymous, and it was hard to imagine Candidate Henry working the boardwalk at Coney Island or milking a cow at the state fair. So it was scarcely surprising when he announced last week that he had decided to stick to the global path rather than explore the campaign trail...
...father died when I was nine. I lived with him in Coney Island. I don't know why I lived with my father and not my mother. He couldn't take care of me, and I remember eating hero sandwiches every day from the luncheonette, and my clothes were wrinkly, smelly, in the corner with mess and garbage. Anyway, he dies when I was nine." She glares at the door. "Sabrina, that's enough...
...first side of the album is a 1978 live performance from New York's Bottom Line of three songs from Reed's early post-Velvets career. The soulful "Coney Island Baby" is even more soulful live, "Berlin" is more bittersweetly melancholy and "Satellite of Love" gains a full-bodied, joyous harmony and electricity that it lacks on the more sedate studio recording. City Lights is worth the purchase price for these three selections alone, since they're unavailable elsewhere...
Just one word of advice: anyone determined to go to Europe around the superpeak period of July 1 or to return around Sept. 1 should go into training, perhaps by jamming into a Saturday afternoon train to Wrigley Field or Coney Island...
...that goes into the mixing of liquid fortitude. Some of the parishioners argued, when it came to decorating, that pictures of parish picnics would be nice, beaming up from beneath the epoxy on the surface. "No, no, no!" cried Reynolds. "We're going professional. No Mickey Mouse. No Coney Island." He hired a decorator and paid him $5,000. He hired a professional bartender, Bill Me Nichols, a man with 30 years' experience in the trade. And he applied for a liquor license, "pleasantly surprising" the state. Today the lights dance on the martini glasses...