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...hero, Henry Soames is the fat and lonely middle-aged owner of a roadside diner in the mid-1950s. Henry knows he will die of a heart-attack someday soon and in a way the book is the story of his coming-to-grips with death. Henry feels cheated by a life wasted, listening to the grinding clutches of trucks working their way up Nickel mountain. But he can only express himself by talking to drunks who wander in at three in the morning or by roaring up the mountain in his old pick-up, defying the curves, playing with...
...entire room was stilled as for, say, the presentation of the Nobel Prize. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with NBC's Barbara Walters entered Washington's Sans Souci restaurant and, it turned out, walked right into Fellow Diner Art Buchwald's web. Motioning Kissinger over to his table, Humorist Buchwald handed Henry two reels of tape, saying, "Henry, here are the tapes." Amid the general laughter, Kissinger proved he was the stuff of which Metternichs are made. He grinned, said thank you, grew red, and changed the subject. But he did not accept the present...
...food inhalation shows symptoms that are easy to recognize, if a doctor or bystander knows what to look for. The hapless diner is suddenly unable to breathe, talk or cough. A panicky struggle may ensue, as he tears at the lower throat or upper chest. He quickly becomes blue in the face and collapses to the floor or into his plate. Without proper help, death-from lack of oxygen-occurs in four or five minutes...
...elegant Manhattan dinner party some years ago one of the guests tried to start a conversation with the man to her left by asking how many languages he spoke. The balding, big-chested diner looked up from his plate and replied: "One-poorly." For Cyrus Rowlett (known universally as "C.R.") Smith, one has always been enough...
Spaghetti Emporium offers many good things to the Cambridge diner: the food, according to popular consensus, probably is not one of them...