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...rather sit down while enjoying an inexpensive meal, go down to the corner of 29th St. and Sixth Avenue. George's Coffee Shop is one of the finest of New York's many Greek coffee shops. It's the only place in New York City where the guys behind the corner refer to a glass of water as "a ninety-one." Everything from a Western on a roll to a tunafish on rye tastes exactly the same, but the prices are reasonable...
Route 28 turns north in Falmouth and runs through North Falmouth (the home of the Nickelodeon Theater, the finest movie house on the Cape), Otis Air Force Base and then Bourne. I can't remember anything in Bourne that I have ever wanted...
...have no quarrel with the review [Feb. 20]. However, I do disagree with the statements in the last paragraph. Dylan may indeed be trying "to hold on to the Woodstock ethos of the counterculture," but what is wrong with that? In my opinion, the Woodstock era was the finest hour in America history. Sure, times change, but not everyone has cut their hair and forgotten their dreams...
Fassbinder dares in different but equally bold ways. Instead of seeking stories in the strange and the exotic, he finds the strange and exotic in stories he knows. In one of his finest films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972), he evokes intense drama out of what would seem to be a supremely undramatic situation: three lesbians enclosed in a small, claustrophobic apartment who do nothing but talk, talk, talk...
Kruger seemed to take backhand lessons from Goolagong, as she battled back from the deficit, and the match went to a nine-point tiebreaker at 6-6. With the tiebreaker even at four-all, Goolagong reached back and rifled one of her finest serves to the corner that Kruger couldn't touch...