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...City Tavern, originally built in 1773, is a part of local history. The restaurant has painted, wood-paneled walls, comb-back chairs, and a staff in period costumes that should delight children. They might also feel at home with the school-cafeteria level of cooking. But for a restful lunch of a sandwich or a salad, the Tavern suffices...
...history. The late Justice Potter Stewart, for example, contended that in 1789-91 Congress and those states that ratified the Bill of Rights intended merely to prevent the establishment of a single national religion and keep the Federal Government from interfering with the established churches in various states. Accommodationists delight in noting that Jefferson allowed the Bible and a hymnal to be used to teach reading when he headed the District of Columbia school board, and that he signed a treaty in which the U.S. Government paid a Catholic missionary's salary and built churches for Indians. James Madison...
This is the big opportunity Beverly Hills Cop II misses. For there is an inherent problem about any sequel that too slavishly duplicates the style and substance of its predecessor; it cannot deliver the delight of discovery that the original provided. Axel made a swell first impression, but he is still living on it, perhaps not yet a bore, but not quite as fascinating as he once promised to be. This is not going to bother the apparently vast audience that now exists for twice-told tales about familiar figures. And it makes life easy for the guys in marketing...
Birding. Noun (neologism). Dynamic, addictive and highly contagious behavior combining hunting skills, aesthetic delight, intellectual analysis and the dreamy withdrawal from normal life, especially during spring migration...
Once the leafy pastime of a derided fringe group, birding has developed into a go- go sport with wide appeal to active and sedentary aficionados alike. From feeding chickadees in the backyard to hunting Siberian rubythroats in the Aleutian Islands, birding offers aesthetic delight, the joys of puzzle solving and the chance to sublimate avarice through the compilation of a life list...