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Apparently no other word means as much as American, and restaurant own-trying to grab it. In New York City alone there are, in addition to America, the American Festival Cafe in Rockefeller Plaza, An American Place on the Upper East Side, Cafe Americano and the American Harvest, operated by Hilton International, which also manages American Harvest in Washington and new one in Kansas City. There, however, they have chosen the simple word Harvest in order to avoid confusion with the established American Restaurant in the local Crown Center development. The American Grill prospers in Scottsdale, Ariz., and there...
...Tune in Miami Vice and watch Don Johnson as Detective Crockett bag the bad guys. Catch Bob Geldof on the news shows; he must be so busy raising money for famine relief in Africa that he lacks the time and inclination to drag a blade across his jaw. Grab some rays at a tennis tournament and scrutinize the botanical shadow on Bjorn Borg's face. Take a trip down to the local triplex: Mickey Rourke, Timothy Hutton and Christopher Lambert are scruffing up the screen; Mel Gibson, as Mad Max, is atomizing his enemies; Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Norris...
...among intelligence bureaucrats in England. Stinnes must be debriefed if he is not a plant and foiled if he is. Samson, under suspicion because of Fiona's bad behavior, gets the assignment. He is impeded not so much by Stinnes and his ex-wife, though she is threatening to grab their children, as by his superiors. These careerists are, variously, twits, fops, climbers and pooh-bahs whose entire interest is in position, perks and, after they have dithered and muddled for a sufficient number of decades, knighthoods. Samson's boss Dicky Cruyer is a particularly loathsome species of well-connected...
...first recital provoked an unprecedented near riot. As the security gates in front of the Moscow Conservatory swung open to admit the pianist's chauffeured Chaika, hundreds of young people burst through the police lines and stormed the Conservatory's Great Hall. Plainclothes and uniformed guards managed to grab a few of them, sending several sprawling. But many, perhaps most, raced past astonished ticket takers and ran upstairs to the balcony, where they crouched in the aisles and stood shoulder to shoulder against the walls. In a country that takes special pride in preserving public order, romantic exuberance rarely overwhelms...
...General Interest Boing Boing www.boingboing.net A grab bag of links to cool, odd and interesting things happening online and off-like the bit about the engineering student who cobbled together an air conditioner using a fan and a bucket of ice water, and the Florida couple who found the image of Jesus on a Lay's potato chip. Gadget news, kitsch, digital art and disturbing consumer trends are all fair game for the Boing Boing team, which solicits, and vets, suggestions from the audience...