Word: delicatessens
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...corridors and 14 shops, customers can purchase an infinite variety of far-out clothing-from wild lingerie to see-through shirts to sexy pants and fancy wigs. There are cigarettes from India and Japan and France, newspapers and magazines from Paris, Parisian cosmetics, chic boots, bags and belts. A delicatessen offers the usual fare-along with bouillabaisse, ris de veau and lobster en croûte. The bookshop stocks current bestsellers, as well as a discreet selection of high-class pornography and perceptive sampling of the overseas and underground press...
...delicatessen counter replaces the a-la-carte cafeteria line. Students not on contract can eat at the contract cafeteria and pay by the item...
Stein entered the securities business in a roundabout way. Born in Brooklyn to parents in what he calls "less than affluent circumstances," he moved to Manhattan as a child and grew up in a flat over the Stage Delicatessen on Seventh Avenue. At the age of five he began to practice the violin and almost took up a career as a musician. His formal schooling was a sometime thing: he spent eight to ten hours a day playing the violin and three hours a week with a tutor who came to the Stein apartment. "I learned a little math...
...Elsie's (75a Mt. Auburn St.) is more flamboyant, and specializes in feeding you huge amounts of delicatessen sandwiches. Hazen's (just next door) is stronger on the basic hamburgers and French fries. It is also not as densely crowded as Elsie's during the peak dinner hours...
...Hill Credit Union, complains: "These black kids have no respect. At one time I used to be this great liberal. I've been screwed by a few blacks, but I figured it was the course of business. Now I've become very hardened." At the G & G Delicatessen in Dorchester, once the social center for 50,000 Jewish Bostonians and now little more than a gathering place for old men who sip coffee, Julius Kolodny says bitterly: "Black and white can never mix. They burned my house to the ground, those kids. Then this woman comes and says...