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Franzen is also working on a new novel. It's poor form to grill a writer about a work in progress, but I do it anyway, and he throws me a few cryptic crumbs. "The deep ecologists like to say that nature bats last," he says. "Whenever anyone is trying to say, mankind is smarter than nature ... we are of nature. And nature does therefore always bat last." So something political? "Certainly that's another thing I've been doing over the past five years. Being upset over the state of American politics...
...they would have to give it away to local retirees and pig farmers. Jacqui popped the heads off the biggest shrimp as they twitched under her thumb. “I’ll cook you some right now!” she said, glancing at her little gas grill. But since I was reporting, I had to refuse.One week later, as I was writing my story for the paper, I looked at their records. In 1992 Chris has been taken in for aggravated battery, though his case was ultimately dismissed. Jacqui had been arrested on several charges of animal...
...YORK—Not far from the seventy-five sons of Harvard munching on soft-shell crab in the Grill Room, up two flights of crimson-carpeted stairs, past the mounted moose heads, beyond the Library and the conspicuously displayed copies of the Harvard Gazette, lies the Mahogany Room, where daughters and granddaughters of those soft-shell crab-munching sons of Harvard pawed and prodded at frocks hawked by one Lewis Albert...
...these, "Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar" is king, and it's the only large casual-dining chain with an outlet in Jamestown. Since its founding in Atlanta in 1980 - when it carried the delightfully whimsical name T.J. Applebee's Rx for Edibles & Elixirs - Applebee's has become a beast. "With nearly 1,700 restaurants," applebees.com says, "it is the largest casual dining restaurant concept in the world" (Ruby Tuesday, by comparison, has just 880 locations). Note the language: Applebee's is much more concept than restaurant. It serves food grounded in no particular ethnic or regional cuisine in settings bewilderingly...
...than a million people: the outlying Comfort Inns are soon followed by an onslaught of billboards with ensorcelling pictures of the steaks and pastas and chicken Caesars available at the fungible establishments calling themselves O?Charley's or Olive Garden or, if you?re very lucky, Carrabba's Italian Grill. (Check out the July issue of Consumer Reports for detailed ratings on 103 U.S. restaurant chains; Carrabba?s was named top Italian chain, and it tied for third overall behind the pricey Capital Grille and Ruth?s Chris steakhouse chains...