Word: log
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sandwich). These in turn are the forerunners of the New Orleans muffuletta, a round hero full of Italian ham, salami, mortadella, provolone cheese and an oily olive, pepper and vegetable salad that is the specialty of the city's Central Grocery. But the ultimate hero is the six-foot log made famous by the Manhattan cafeteria- restaurant Manganaro's Hero Boy. Designed to be cut into individual portions for parties, the superhero weighs 22 lbs., feeds "30 hungry men or 40 men and women" and costs $85.95, complete with cutting board and knife...
...That would be like falling off a log," Libby Stephenson laughs...
Andrea and Immaculata Cuomo came to America by boat from Naples. They had little money and no English. Mario, their fourth and final child, was born in the urban equivalent of a log cabin, the room behind his father's grocery store. Cuomo has turned his early life into a sepia-tinted parable of a polyglot neighborhood of hard work and love. He can spin out stories about everyone on the old block: Lanzone, the baker; Kaye, the Jewish tailor; Kelly, the Irish scrap dealer...
...same token, however, it is difficult to generate public interest in debates which are perceived as being unimportant. If a majority of voters neglected to log in at the voting booths in the 1984 presidential election, it is probably because of the overwhelming similarity between Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale; the biggest issue debated was whether or not to raise taxes, not exactly a life-or-death matter...
...When the log...