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...half-starved by a decade of war, and few had the strength or cunning to resist. One who did was Eleni Gatzoyiannis of the little farm hamlet Lia. Though she had spent her life deferring to her father, a prosperous miller, and to her husband, a cook at a diner in far-off America who returned periodically to visit, Eleni was transformed by crisis into a leader: she organized the escape of 20 people of Lia, most of them women and children, down the mountains and through the line of battle. The group made it. Eleni...
...story and milieu are familiar enough, in movies from The Graduate to Diner, to constitute a new American genre. But whenever Baby, It's You starts to become rambling or folkloric, Sayles and his charming young actors find a way to twist or energize the clichés. You can catch a glisten of moisture in the eye of an "easy," misused girl who's too proud to cry; or contemplate Jill's half-embarrassed smile when she goes dancing cheek to Sheik; or fall in with the gliding camera that circles the young lovers during their...
...cites the example of an expensive restaurant in Washington, "right in the shadow of the IRS," where he and a group of other lawyers were given signed tax receipts for their dinner, and then saw that the amount had been left blank, to be filled in according to the diner's conscience. "Face it," says Wolfman, "waiters in nice restaurants are serving people they know are deducting the bills racked up in those places. Lower-and middle-income people are not dumb just because they don't have loopholes. They know a significant distinction when they...
Slab Boys is drawing an uncustomary Broadway audience, many in leather jackets and punk haircuts, perhaps because the cast features leading exponents of baby-faced macho: Kevin Bacon (Fenwick in the movie Diner), Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Jackie Earle Haley (Breaking Away) and Val Kilmer...
...history-from his former employer. Potamitis, who was on duty at Sentry on Dec. 12, 1982, the night of the robbery, claimed he had been overpowered by two men in ski masks during the heist. His alleged accomplices, George Legakis, 21, a part-time cook in a Queens diner, Demetrios Popadakos, 35, and Eddie Argitakos, 24, were also arrested and charged with bank larceny. The $11 million is still missing, but authorities said they were "optimistic" about recovering...