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California Pizza Kitchen is located at 16-18 Eliot St. across from the Kennedy School. Both Tartufos are $3.50 and could easily serve two. Go for the yellow formica if nothing else. For Californians stuck in Cambridge for the summer, it's a great taste of home...
...delineations of a date are infinitely problematic. For example, the other night, I somewhat reluctantly accompanied a male friend to the North End for dinner. As we sat in the lounge of a shitty Italian restaurant (I'm allergic to Italian food) waiting for our Formica booth to be ready, we were surrounded by aged alcoholics and squirming children, all of whom were silently and raptly watching golf on the big screen TV (I hate watching golf). In the midst of our stilted and awkward conversation, I was informed, to my surprise, that we were in fact on a date...
...written with an ax." Schwartz, who has four children and has been married to his wife Mildred for 54 years, fired off memos to Paramount chief Sherry Lansing, threatening to campaign against the film should it contain racy scenes or base language. He won. The film, which transports the Formica-loving clan to a '90s world of fast teenagers, evil developers and psychotherapy, was much more to his liking. But the stress took its toll: the day the film opened, at dinner Schwartz blacked out. He later had a pacemaker implanted to correct a heart condition--called, incredibly, bradycardia...
...national figure. And no sign of Jeffries. Forty-five minutes after class was scheduled to start in a windowless, first-floor lecture hall, he still has not arrived. Several of the 40 or so young students (all black but for one Asian) are sprawled face down on their blue Formica fold-out desks. Every few minutes, someone tires of waiting, gets up and leaves...
...home for lunch. In the country, mechanized farming has shrunk village populations, leading to the closing of the cafes that served them. Still, most towns have a place where tradition survives. In Houlgate, a small town on the Normandy coast, six men and a woman chatted around the Formica counter on a recent Saturday. "We come for the conviviality, not for the alcohol," said Sylvain Lecuyer, a 40-year- old seasonal worker. "If someone does not show up for two days, we phone to see if he is sick." Musing on the closing of several local cafes, his drinking companion...