Word: muffins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gentrification is everywhere: The Mug 'N Muffin's bottomless coffee cups have been replaced by a bank. Another bank is about to succeed Brigham's across the street. A Mt. Auburn St. building that housed three bars and a restaurant is gone; soon offices and boutiques will occupy its site. Two of the old establishments will return--no doubt to upscale surroundings and a different clientele...
...readily to sequels: the plots are more apocalyptic, and even if the characters survive, their undercover effectiveness usually does not. But just as John le Carre managed to bring back dumpy, deceptively bland George Smiley, so Brian Freemantle has managed to write six captivating novels featuring scruffy, wily Charlie Muffin. He is a brilliant survivor who in his time has outwitted the Soviets, the Chinese, the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia and his own British service, which early in his debut novel set him up to be killed. In See Charlie Run (Bantam; 278 pages; $15.95), Muffin is back managing...
...Channel--Graham Chapman, The Swinging Erudites, The Cosmic Muffin, Darryl Martini...
...never met. As they settled at Shawn's regular table, Gottlieb gave Shawn his reply to the petition, a three-sentence note that expressed sympathy but declared his intention "to take up this new job." As Gottlieb toyed with his omelet and Shawn ate an English muffin, the two decided that Gottlieb should take over in mid- February, after a week spent working with Shawn...
...Muffin was the last local refuge of the honest-to-goodness, homey mug of coffee. When each cup has a cash bite, you lose the soothing, forevermore flow of half-mugs that can sit unnoticed...