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...league's exhibition season had been a disaster with rookies and free agents playing humdrum football in half-empty stadiums. Even if the strike is settled soon, the rancor between owners and strikers-not to mention bad blood between strikers and veterans who crossed picket lines-promises to linger through the season ahead...
...lunch of reasonably good taste and moderate expense try The Blue Parrot. The Parrot is a hang-out for artsy types who linger over their meals, and if you don't mind waiting for a table or sharing your table with an artsy type this is as nice a place as any to get a sandwich or a snack of cheese and crackers. The luncheon menu is varied--the offerings range from a simple BLT sandwich to Hungarian goulash. Beer and wine is served, but the coffees are your best bet. The Parrot Viennese Velvet (coffee with ice cream, brazilia...
...already skewered the girl's affection for him. In The Words He Said, two lovers sit by a bonfire at a country dance, tense, frustrated, until the very heat of the fire seems to raise their feelings to the even hotter temperatures of hate. In Wine, a couple linger in a Paris café. The man recalls a youthful affair. The woman suddenly sees him in his story as she has not seen him in life. With a kind of sinister coincidence his present affair seems to die as he relates the conclusion of his old love...
Whom Spring on the roadsides cannot induce to linger...
...next attack had started to tyrannize the imagination of the community. A woman I know from the neighborhood stopped spending evenings with Cambridge friends for fear of walking alone the 50 yards from the trolley to her house on the return trip. That memories of these assaults should linger in this neighborhood of mostly white-collar workers and students is understandable; in a neighborhood so transient that the entire population probably changes every couple of years, there are few reliable neighbors to call, few reassuringly recognizable faces to assuage the fears of violence...