Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saratoga Springs, N.Y., who in 1853 is said to have devised "Saratoga chips" to placate a cantankerous customer who complained that the fried potatoes were too thick. But if Crum were to taste chocolate-coated chips, a salt-sweet, cloying aberration priced from $6 to $18 per lb. (the latter from Yuppie Gourmet in Racine, Wis.), he might be sorry he started the whole thing. As a good chef, he would be the first to recognize that even the best idea can be taken...
...work, Vintage Books is helping to resolve that controversy. There was always the suspicion that because Gardner's books were set in the 1960's and reflected the turbulence of that period so well, they were somehow limited to that time. Yet even though we are now in the latter half of the the supposedly calm and reflective '80s, The Sunlight Dialogues, first published in 1972, is as fresh and pertinent as ever...
...University owns two observatories for the purpose of monitoring the stars and extraterrestial life. The George R. Agassiz Station is located in Fort Davis, Texas and the Oakbridge Observatory is in Harvard, Massachusetts, The Smithsonian Institution operates the latter facility, which contains a 61-inch optical reflector telescope...
License Commissioner James T. McDavitt said last night that the latter ban was imposed to prevent Yellow Cab's owner, Arthur Goldberg, from forming an effective Cambridge monopoly by selling the fleet to Frederic Suazo, owner of Yellow Cab's chief competitor, Ambassador/Brattle...
Fortunately too, Danny Glover plays the Cosby role: Veteran Cop Roger Murtaugh, a solid professional with a patient wife and numerous lively progeny. Glover brings a weary gravity -- no cute stuff permitted -- to his relationship with his flock and with his new partner. The latter may have a death wish, but Murtaugh has a strong life wish, and the patience to drip it slowly into Riggs' sensibility...