Word: marginalia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people who dine out are bored with each other and need something to break down the barriers. A way-out menu gives them something to talk about." Alas, the wit is insipid. Along with the "martini-bopper's special," Fireman's own Tin Lizzie restaurant revels in marginalia: "Sit down in our barber chair and enjoy the last living 5? shoeshine, done with real champagne." Minneapolis' Cork & Fork follows each listing with an entry like "Lionel Barrymore, on one of his many visits to the Cork & Fork before it was opened, was once heard to remark...
...communities of more than 2,500 population and color pictures of the flags of all nations, including those of newly independent Guyana (red, green and yellow) and Botswana (white, black and blue). Even so, fact-hungry readers are never satisfied. When the Almanac tries to drop some marginalia, such as the gestation period of animals or the equivalents of Roman numerals, it invariably gets complaints. A reader recently wrote to say that he was "shocked" that the Almanac had no statistics on lefthandedness. Never intimidated by a statistic, Editor Long says he will give it a try next year...
...issue will also contain a screen play, ("not just a crappy dialogue, but a script from a real flic -- you need something totally visible in a literary magazine") and some "marginalia" -- notes on one of the poems, probably one of Kuttner's own, by an "English major's English major...