Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frank Akers paid $4,200 in 1969 for his first two buildings in Portland, Me. The area, Akers says, "was loaded with winos and pimps and seedy waterfront characters. Everybody said I was crazy." Today, of course, downtown Portland is loaded with architects and lawyers and high- butterfat ice-cream stores...
Joyce Brown, a 40-year-old former stenographer, has lived for the past year on a Manhattan sidewalk. Crouched over a hot-air vent, she fended off winter sleet. Panhandling, she dined for $7 a day on juice, a quart of milk, a pint of ice cream and a chicken cutlet from the corner delicatessen. She relieved herself in the gutter, huddled beneath a tattered coat. Crazy or not, Brown claims to know what she wants. "Some people are street people," she says. "That's the life they choose to lead...
PRASCAK transports his Orphee to Harvard Square and packs his script with local references--to eating establishments like Au Bon Pain and Steve's Ice Cream (which Death happens to manage). These touches are rarely intrusive and sometimes quite necessary...
...play consists of a series of overlapping vignettes, each of which takes place in a different dining room with a new set of WASP inhabitants. In smooth succession, Gurney presents all sorts of table settings: a kindergarten birthday bash complete with ice cream, a tense mother-daughter talk, and a pitch to granddad for prep school tuition money made by a politic young man, to name...
...order. I usually get tea--Earl Grey with milk and honey. But tonight demands coffee, strong and dark. With only a little cream. It's psychological, not the caffeine. The cups at Pamplona are heavy, my energy is absorbed in the act of drinking. Our conversation is frantic, fueled by nervous energy and lack of sleep...