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Sandwiches even inspire a special lingo used by coffee-shop and deli personnel to relay orders to the sandwichmen behind the counter. Because pastrami can sound a lot like salami when shouted out in a busy, noisy dining room, it is known as "pistol." A "pistol with a shot" means that coleslaw will be added. If the cus- tomer wants his sandwich on rye toast, the waiter hollers "whiskey down." A pistol "dressed" indicates that Russian dressing is to be used, and anyone discovered eating pastrami that way in a New York delicatessen can expect to earn the sort...
...Andrew Rubin). The pair traverse the desolate city streets and cope with the unglamorous trivia of everyday police life. A woman is found dead in her apartment, and Joe and Willie debate what to do with the bag of money she has left. An old man wanders into a deli and orders a meal he cannot pay for; he turns out to be an Alzheimer's victim who has escaped from a senior citizens' home...
Part II: lawyering down South; hosting; parenthood; and a little deli in the mall...
...next few years life slid along rather pleasantly. A daughter, Alexis, was born in 1973. Michael became legal counsel to the city of Atlanta, flirted with local politics, got out without losing his shirt. Elizabeth gave lectures on her culinary findings and in 1977 opened a little deli, Thyme for You, in a shopping mall. Her homemade soups and sandwiches were a smash. She made "20 grand real quick," and then "all of a sudden it occurred to me: This is me! This is it!" It lasted two years, until the wine-and-cheese shop from which she rented space...
...retailer of gray-market goods is New York City's 47 St. Photo, which last year sold about $100 million worth of cameras, personal computers and other products through four stores and a mail-order operation. The cramped and chaotic original outlet is located in mid-Manhattan above a deli and reached by a dingy staircase. The store, though, is stuffed armpit- to-elbow with bargain hunters: pinstripe lawyers who are on their lunch hour, families in from suburban New Jersey, Japanese bankers, white-robed Egyptians, high-decibel hagglers in Spanish, Hebrew and Korean...