Word: coneys
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...Giuliani might not want to give up his Upper East Side apartment for an Iowa farmhouse just yet. Despite his newfound enthusiasm for the state, not everything about Giuliani translates well this far west of the Hudson. In the audience at Coney's was Stan Sheldon, who has been active in Iowa presidential politics since 1936, when he got into trouble for pasting Alf Landon signs on the door of his school. This time Sheldon is supporting Romney. "I think he's been married three times," he said of Giuliani. "That's gonna hurt him here." And in a state...
...York called Nyack! Spelled differently..." Upon learning that composer Meredith Willson grew up in Mason City, Giuliani immediately made the connection: "The Music Man was on Broadway a long time." Most familiar of all is Iowa's tradition of retail politics, he said outside a Webster City diner called Coney's Plus (yep, just like the island). "This," declared Giuliani, "is the way you campaign in New York City...
...CONEY ISLAND, N.Y. New hot-dog champ...
...There have been no photo shoots at the Statue of Liberty; no Coney Island weekend jaunts; no brassy Broadway musicals; no Fifth Avenue shopping sprees; no bar-hopping, no galleries; nary an Indie rock show. I haven’t even set foot in the hallowed Met—though not for lack of trying: the guard wouldn’t let me through because I was carrying the remnants of a Central Park picnic. (He sifted through my bag: “Brie? Apple cider? What else do you have in here?” Me, sheepishly...
...match Joey Chestnut dog for dog until the end, when he appeared to regurgitate a couple of them. Both men broke the world record of 59, but when the July 4 competition was over, Chestnut was proclaimed the new champion of Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on Coney Island, with a total of 66. Kobayashi was credited with...