Word: diner
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...turned into kitsch, their fame exploited to sell the most banal products. Guernica adorns T shirts, the Mona Lisa is woven into welcome mats, Sunflowers brightens up your morning coffee mug. Edward Hopper's Nighthawks has suffered the same fate. Prints of the iconic 1942 painting of a gloomy diner have shown up in several generations of American college dorms - there's even a mouse pad. Has reproduction robbed the image of its morose power and reduced Hopper, one of America's greatest artists, to the ranks of the one-hit wonders? Not on your life. Walk into the Hopper...
...Conlon heads to a culinary establishment known as Jimmy's Diner. Big Bird has a phone number for his assailant, and Conlon has traced it to a fax machine there. The kindly woman behind the counter regrets to inform us that she doesn't recognize the phone number, and anyway Jimmy's doesn't have a fax machine, and are we sure we have the right Jimmy's? There's more than one, you know. Just like that the trail goes dead. "You try to get people involved in the story," Conlon says with a shrug, on his way back...
...where that was the obligation," says Joel. They cast Hanks because he could pull off the potentially over-the-top role of a classics-obsessed Southern criminal. "Tom can do that sort of stuff without it being shtick," says Ethan, 46, sitting with his brother at a Los Angeles diner...
...even if Dartboard chooses not to partake, others should not be deprived. Dartboard frequents fast food joints for the pure junk food taste—grease, fat and all—and suspects the rare diner that stops in as a last resort will never be tempted by the S-word hanging in the air. If it makes one person happy to consume a bucket of Coke, then so be it—Dartboard has been known to sip quite a few 44-ounce Big Gulps in her time...
Another Adams diner, Bryan Y. Ho ’06, said the new policy “kind of makes us look even more elitist, but there really were nights where there seriously was no place to eat. Sometimes I’d be forced to eat in a friend’s room...