Word: espresso
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...favorite weapon was the non sequitur (mankind's greatest invention, according to the 2,000 Year Old Man, was Saran Wrap). He also excelled at illogical logic and brassy, daffy asides, like the hermit in Young Frankenstein sulking because the monster had shambled off without sampling his espresso...
...Italy, calling the peasants from the surrounding fields to the Sunday service. The blue cover of the exam book in front of us becomes the alluring azure of an Algerian afternoon sky. The steam from a dining hall cup of coffee becomes the aromatic wisp from a demitasse of espresso sipped in a sidewalk cafe on Paris Left Bank. As March matures into April, as the countdown progresses from seven to five to three days before we can board our planes and trains for the outside world, the symbols deepen into a mythology both rapturous in its promise of pleasure...
Reflections's egalitarian set-up--all of the workers are James' comrades--probably accounts for its unusual ambience, and the cup of 35 cent American or 45 espresso is a tasty and cheap pass to the seven hours of entertainment available each evening...
...theater, will blink in the glow of the streetlight's as he slowly comes to realize that no, he is not in Africa, not France nor the Pacific Northwest. Cambridge at the moment is distasteful to him, and, as he sits in a cafe sipping his espresso, the future becomes not further education nor a steady profession, but a series of places where a political struggle remains to be won, where a woman waits to be conquered, where a challenging task awaits the man equal...
There is no rest for the flight weary. Coffee bars sell no sandwiches; even coffee, in espresso-land, is difficult to obtain. Toilets often bear signs reading UNDER REPAIR or CLOSED FROM 11 A.M. TO 5 P.M. Besides all that, the roof leaks...