Word: delicatessens
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Sandaled Shades. But mainly, traces of the beat forefathers remain in the coffeehouses only on menus or signs on the walls. Neatly dressed college kids at Caf&233; Bizarre in Manhattan's Greenwich Village observe a sign that advertises POETS AND FOLK SWINGERS, order such delicatessen as the Suffering Bastard Sundae ($4.75 for four). Even Washington, D.C., the municipal square root, has Coffee 'n' Confusion, where manicured men in dark blue suits and ladies in tailored dresses stare at a sign that says WELCOME COOL GOOLS...
...Sheldon Berman's first memories is of being held by his mother (now dead) in a tight clutch of terror while police raided their home. His father Nathan was a tavern owner, and he appears, in one of Berman's best routines, as a militantly bourgeois delicatessen keeper who rough-talkingly tenders a chunk of his life savings so that his son can go to acting school; the sketch ends with the father's soft-spoken request to the newborn star not to change his name. Berman actually went to Chicago's Goodman Theater acting school...
...John's Wood house in London and an eight-acre, 16th century manor in Kent. His real rewards, says he, are to have achieved "independence, privacy and space." Despite such serene surroundings, he insists, "I have more in common with any other freelance, from a prostitute to a delicatessen owner, than the stiff, abstract tedious people from the literary world...
...Last Word (CBS, 3-3:30 p.m.). William Saroyan, who wallows in language like a dieter in a delicatessen, is this week's guest etymologist...
...Administration has closed the Iroquois Club until June 4 as a result of the bombing prank at Elsie's delicatessen last Wednesday. A bomb was thrown into the building by two Club members who fled into the club, which is located directly across Mt. Auburn Street from the delicatessen...