Word: diner
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Just around the corner, Charlie’s Kitchen (10 Eliot St.) sends the same message but in a completely different manner. The ground level of this ’50s-style diner is complete with red booths, a checkered floor and several television sets. Upstairs is a darker bar with loud, though not blaring, rock music and a jukebox. Patrons can order food and drinks on both floors. A big lobster tank immediately inside the front door indicates the type of food served here: classic New England pub grub. Any one of the 15 or so brews...
...Zippy Annual" has a large section dedicated to a series of strips about Zippy interacting with roadside novelty sculpture and diner architecture. Each one features a different giant-sized muffler man or androgynous ice-cream cone creature found at real places around the country. Essentially, Griffith uses the strip as an excuse to draw things he loves three time over - once per panel. A comparison to Warhol, who also loved repetition, commercial art and pop culture, feels natural. This way "Zippy" single-handedly appropriates Pop Art into the comics page the way the comics page got appropriated into...
...lose the miles. These days, points or miles collected on a credit card can be used to pay for everything from round-trip plane tickets to college tuition (on Citibank's Upromise card) to your teen's braces (on Diner's Club, which lets you choose a reward once you hit 100,000 points). Chase allows you to earn Continental Airline miles by using your debit card, but at a rate of half a mile per dollar spent--vs. one mile on the typical credit card...
...while other families suffer without recourse after more private, but no less painful, losses. The family of a guy who washed dishes at Windows on the World will get close to half a million dollars in aid, while the family of a guy who washed dishes at the local diner before being stabbed to death in a mugging gets absolutely nothing. Why? Each death is absolutely random, and each family will weep in the same...
...Derek who?" In another, ROBERT DE NIRO, on a Thanksgiving parade float with BILLY CRYSTAL, yells, "Are you gobblin' at me?" In yet another, Yogi Berra conducts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra before asking "Who is this Phil Harmonic?" And in the most disturbing spot, a woman at a diner orders a "Ben Stiller with a side of bacon," at which point Ben Stiller and Kevin Bacon sit on either side of her, fulfilling her sandwich fantasy. Warning to tourists: If this happens to you, just pay the check and leave...