Word: napkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night before his death he had dinner with friends and then returned to his studio to work through the late hours of the night -- the routine he had followed for years. He worked continually, made sketches as naturally as speaking, and finally every scrap he signed, every napkin he doodled on had its value...
...napkin I wrote a note...
...moonlighting GI handed her the napkin...
...Gazpacho, a cold, Spanish tomato soup, for $.80 a bowl with side bowls of diced cucumbers and peppers is unfailingly cool, garlicy and thick. Of the hors d'oeuvres, the angulas ($2.00), baby eels broiled in olive oil and garlic, are my favorite. You should hold your yellow linen napkin over the little casserole when it first is put before you, as the eels have just escaped the broiler and they sometimes explode with the heat. (Better that they explode under your napkin than in your face, or worse still, your stomach). Once cooled they are a startling and tender...
...office and peace was restored. A dingy old man a few seats along form me picked up his sandwich and resumed his lunch. He had spread everything out on the seat beside him: a ham sandwich on a bit of waxed paper, a Cadbury's Crunchie, and even a napkin. But he didn't finish his sandwich before he left, and I passed it lying there...