Word: delicatessens
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Jaded by pastel planes and miniskirted stewardesses, bored with imitation-fur lap throws and delicatessen sandwiches, airline passengers are being enticed with a new frill. Since April, Trans World Airlines has been trying to attract business with an idea as cold as cash and as warm as a smile. It is offering employees a chance to exchange courtesy...
...northbound train, a train to Cambridge, or even to Boston, was what we longed after. In the delicatessen, in the fire station, among the hoots of the boy scout troops lost on an outing, in the deep sad faces of the traffic cop, we longed for you New England, even for your snow with your different quiet, and different peace, and acceptance of these mysteries of cold and ice. The Long Island Expressway writhes in disbelief--it seems impossible that stupid dumb precipitation, which doesn't know Anybody, has no connections, has never worked its way up, could come between...
...reality, the reality of the film, not the reality of people who just happen to walk in front of a camera. For what Cassavetes was trying to do, the most effective thing would be to prop a camera up and film an evening at Ken's Delicatessen...
...state of Texas), and archaic or arcane spellings ("Chef's Sallet," "Stake wyth Asparagus," "Colde Lobfter") all provoke the diner's eye into paying attention to the day's specials. The most honest and sardonic sell of all is practiced by the Brookline, Mass., delicatessen of Jack & Marion's. Several of the 345 dishes on the overwhelming (25-in. by 36-in.) card carry a star to indicate "a good profit item for Jack & Marion's. Please order...
...Busy Body comes not to praise Sid Caesar but to bury him. In Chicago, the syndicate's head hood (Robert Ryan) elects Delicatessen Delivery Boy Caesar to his board of directors because he likes the cut of his jib. Caesar, in turn, likes the cut of his job, but though he may act like a big deal, deep down he is a little schlemiel who can't even rob a grave without losing the body. Chased by cops and robbers, Caesar is saved at the final fade-out only by dumb luck and a dumber script...