Word: delicatessens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Roosevelt Island already boasts 400 families, a delicatessen, a stationery store and bank, and leases have been signed for a restaurant, a liquor store and a laundry. In keeping with the original vision of a classless, integrated, ecumenical community, the four apartment buildings now standing range from federally assisted low-income housing (at $421 for a four-bedroom apartment), to middle-and higher middle-income accommodations (from a $297 studio to an $887 three-bedroom duplex) to co-ops that are comparably priced with East Side Manhattan apartments...
...plot is enervating to recount, it is excruciating to sit through. The script is replete with rough-and-tumble frontier humor, Hollywood style, which means that the characters talk like unemployed gag writers trying to top each other over a delicatessen breakfast. Segal and Hawn, who are usually actors of charm and humor, here look as if they would like to be on the first stage out of town-or maybe even under...
...chain saw and a lobster. The machines nose up to the coal vein and rip out ten tons of coal a minute; then their clawlike arms sweep the coal onto conveyor belts. The most efficient underground mines have "longwall" machines that continuously shear the coal vein, much as a delicatessen slicer cuts salami...
...late wife - "Whoever goes first loses." Norman Mailer crosses the Hud son as the city-nation of N.Y.C.'s first President while a jubilant citizen shouts, "We're recognized by Israel!" The evening's finest gig is a wild flamenco in honor of the native delicatessen: "Out-of-town baloneys/ Are made of horse and ponies." Beware of Boston, too, where "You don't order tonic/ Unless you want a high colonic." Grace under pressure is sometimes no more than a good laugh...
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...