Word: diner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comfortable as a public figure and as the personification of the company he built. Like Buffett, he remains unaffected, wandering Manhattan and Seattle without an entourage or driver. Nestled into a banquette one Sunday night at 44, a fashionable Manhattan restaurant, he is talking volubly when another diner approaches. Gates pulls inward, used to people who want his autograph or to share some notion about computers. But the diner doesn't recognize him and instead asks him to keep his voice down. Gates apologizes sheepishly. He seems pleased to be regarded as a boyish cutup rather than a celebrity...
Forty-two hours into the run, however, Dole was almost out of gas. After rolling through a Michigan truck stop, a Newark, New Jersey, diner and a Philadelphia nightclub, he found himself in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Saturday, free-associating at a noontime rally--from Eisenhower to the war on drugs, from flag burning to Indogate, from partial-birth abortion to Boutros Boutros-Ghali. After months in search of a coherent message, Dole had returned to the splintered themes and message fragments of the primaries. There was only one difference: in March, it was good enough...
...menu boldly describes Charlie's as a haunt "Where Cooking is an Art and Eating is a Pleasure." In a sense, Charlie's is a throwback to the era when everyone gathered at the neighborhood diner, with patrons and staff greeting newcomers with...
...diner is brimming with celebrity as well as neighborhood charm...
...food, though, isn't too exotic. It's mainly an abbreviated version of the typical New Jersey diner's seven-page layout. Its only foray into the international style is the Teriyaki tips with potatoes, salad and rice...