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...Bussiere surreptitiously makes his way through several dossiers, his table-mate tries to imitate him. The noble gesture of the one becomes a comic pantomime in the hands of the other. He chokes, grimaces, swallows with deliberate difficulty. "How can you do this?" he asks. The paper-eater shrugs and chews on. The scene turns in our minds from farce to cynicism. This is the face of The Terror: a mournful man behind a stack of paper...
Elevated to the presidency, Poli took his reputation as a militant seriously. A hearty eater and drinker, the 6-ft. 2-in. Pittsburgh native usually speaks calmly and always clearly. "I am not a ranter or a raver or a stomper," he says. "I am frank and straightforward." One critic calls him "a brash bastard," while one follower considers him "a helluva father figure." Poli does not apologize for, in effect, pushing his friend Leyden aside. "We could see there might be cause to strike," he explains coolly. "I knew I would be ready for it, and John might...
...more outlets on the West Coast. But to expand further he needed more money. Bushnell therefore turned to venture capitalists for backing. Says Wallace Davis, 63, whose venture capital firm, Mayfield Fund, invested $750,000 in the company: "I'm not a game player or a, big pizza eater. But I was impressed observing the customers at Pizza Time restaurants. People really seemed to enjoy themselves there." Another attraction for investors was Bushnell's good business record at Atari...
Sokolov's bond to Liebling's career runs deeper than a superficial homage to a fellow eater, though. The older writer, by the end of his life, had managed to include almost every kind of writing, journalistic and non-journalistic, in his list of accomplishments. He reviewed restaurants; covered boxing matches, great and small; witnessed D-Day and the liberation of Paris as a war correspondent; cranked out short story collections and novellas; and critiqued the state of American journalism in his "Wayward Press" column for years. One of the most prolific and versatile writers of the century, Liebling died...
A.T.C. concerns the living arrangement of three people-Earl, an alienated poseur; Laurie, a morbid bank teller; and Jake, a banal house painter and eater of grilled cheese. Earl has snuffed someone, so he is at the mercy of a mysterious Mr. White, the landlord who never comes on the stage. Laurie is Earl's former girlfriend--she is the only one who deals with Mr. White. Jake is a mass of muscle and simplicity, the common man who finds himself lost in the midst of this weirdness. Laurie works at the A.T.C.--American Trust Company--and the play...