Word: diner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concern with an undefined purity of spirit permeates The Little Theater, and sometimes I think it threatens to stifle it. In the first of the three movies, it's Christmas Eve. The snow comes down gently, as it should, the Seine winds placidly in the story-book background. Some diners-out offer an old bum money to watch them eat, so as to add savor to their meal with a reminder that progress--which they like as little as Renoir does--hasn't leveled all distinctions yet. The bum pockets the leftovers from their meal, shows up some patronizing rich...
...more drastic solution was observed recently in a New Salem, Mass., diner where a regular breakfaster, having ordered his cereal and coffee, surveyed the counter and found it sugarless. Beckoning the proprietor, he asked genially what had become of the sweetening. After reaching behind the counter, the owner approached the customer, spoon in hand and sugar bowl protectively clutched to his bosom. "How many spoonfuls you want on your Wheaties?" came the grim question. "How many in the coffee...
...finest architects in the U.S. They have been re-antiquated and reinserted into American life with love and ambience-and with food and wine. The fact is that hundreds of classic buildings throughout the U.S. have become thriving restaurants, saved from the wrecker's ball by the diner's thrall. If few of them are likely to match Maxim's in cuisine, they are for the most part good, solid, pleasant places...
...soup arrives lukewarm, dessert does not arrive at all, and the bill bears little relation to what was ordered. Even so, the restaurant patron is likely to add 15% to the check for the waiter or waitress, then go home grumbling about the injustices of tipping. For the dissatisfied diner who is too timid to complain aloud, there is a palatable remedy: a union of restaurant victims called Tippers International...
...will relish. Of a Mexican bartender Finney writes: "His forefathers came to this country a little after Hernando Cortez. His foremothers, Mayans, Toltecs, and Aztecs, were already here." A child devoured by a sea serpent is disposed of in an equally deadpan manner: "For seven years he was a diner; then for a few minutes he was a dinner. Ultimately he was incorporated into the cell structure of the sea serpent, a distinction he did not enjoy." Horses are "anachronisms less speedy, less beautiful, less efficient than the machines which have replaced them." The Gadarene swine are "food for sermons...