Word: delicatesseners
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Every day, many Harvard students pass Elsie's delicatessen on their way to and from classes. If anyone bothered to look above the awning that says "Delicious Roast Beef," they would notice the remnants of a sign that once read "Manter Hall School." Few of those who frequent Elsie's realize that the building above their heads has served as everything from a boys' prep school to a Harvard tutoring academy...
...settles for cruises off Long Island in the 30-year-old Navy launch he bought for $8,250. Pike and his wife Doris still live in the two-story Victorian frame house where he was born; in Washington, he occupies a modest three-room apartment above a delicatessen near the Capitol...
...Woody Allen. The man is perhaps the most inventive clown since the days of the silents. Indeed, much of the movie could be played without a sound track. With such assets, it seems a pity that too much of Allen's comedy, with its incessant references to delicatessen, Jewish parents and neurotic hang-ups, remains on the streets of Manhattan...
...Puns. The casting of Lynn Redgrave as the titular heroine is one clue to this light direction. Redgrave is long of leg and spunky, and does an amusing accent, sort of a delicatessen Dutch. She also narrates the film and dispenses some of the screenwriters' coy puns. One reminiscence begins with "Long before they could call me madam . . ." Other putatively funny episodes involve a striptease performed in the board room of a large corporation before a chairman dressed in tie, pinstripes and undershorts and a wealthy fetishist who enjoys an exotic combination of leather, a barking...
Somewhere between five and six in the morning Joe Germano stops his white jeep on a Somerville street to pick up Louis Sevilitti. They drive in silence to the Essex Delicatessen or a similar all-night restaurant where they know all the "regulars" and where Joe orders a bagel and tea, Louis coffee and an English. Then they make their way down Atlantic Ave, to the wharf where Louis' boat, the Salvatore, is moored, and motor out past the airport in the sunrise...