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...this tectonic tumult, the structures of civilization seem to teeter. The schools and supermarkets are surrounded, as often as not, by fresh-dug earth, and what's not being built is being shored up or razed. Just off Highway 50 the settlement of Frenchman--once home to a diner, a gas station and a motel--was purchased by the Navy several years ago and leveled to make a bombing range...
Alfred Bouley, who worked at the roadhouse counter, and waitress Rintha Piper both told Cambridge Police Lt. John f. Lockwood that they had seen Gardiner in the diner on the week following his disappearance...
Frankie is a waitress, and Johnny a cook, in a dive of a diner somewhere in the Big Apple. She comes home every day to a small apartment with meat loaf and beer in the fridge, a stuffed E.T. doll on the nightstand. "I had a parakeet once," she admits. "I hated it, I was glad when it died." Frankie is a pro at cloaking loneliness in irony. She probably was glad when Tweety bought the bird-farm, but then again, she'd never tell us otherwise...
...favorite meal of the day is my ice cream meal. Yes, I really do consider my snack a meal. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, my ice cream--all are comparable time investments. Also, it is important to eat ice cream on its own. It helps the diner to better appreciate the merits of the selected flavor. Ice cream needs to be savored to be truly tasted...
...Sundays families attend Mass at the Irish, Italian and Croatian churches where their grandparents were married. Bridgeport is a place where one can still see precinct captains and aldermen of the 11th Ward drinking at Schaller's Pump, and where sauerkraut soup is still served at a diner not far from the home of Chicago's legendary Boss, Richard J. Daley, and the funeral home where he was laid out. But Bridgeport is also the sort of community where a Mexican grocer can find his tires slashed, where a Chinese housewife can discover that someone has set her garbage cans...