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...world knows what to make of Tomba, not least because Tomba has told us what he makes of Tomba. He came to "Alberto-ville," he expounded, on a training program even more attractive than Jane Fonda's (pasta and sleep and plenty of female company); he predicted success, and for a while he transcended his predictions. By the time he accelerated through the final five gates of his second run in the giant slalom to ease past archrival Marc Girardelli and became the first Olympian skier to defend a championship, Tomba had left his signature in capital letters...
...different houses featured different menus. I would, perhaps, eat somewhere else. Or, at least I would vary my food-intaking locale. But why would I voluntarily schlepp an extra three blocks to eat broccoli cheese pasta while staring up at the Winthrop courtyard...
...town -- the greater Bay Area, for that matter -- is sicklied o'er with restaurants. Culinary czars rule a population where schoolchildren learn the meaning of chanterelle and shiitake before they study the alphabet. Beer can come in a bottle with a champagne cork, and spaghetti automatically means fennel-raspberry pasta. To ask for a glass of ordinary tap water or regular coffee is to admit that you hail from Tulsa. Pretentious readings of bogus poetry have now been supplanted by SF Net, a coffeehouse computer linkup that enables pseudo avant-gardists to cross-chat electronically over their caffe e latte...
Benningan's, Houlihan's and T.G.I. Friday's are the standard models, serving big burgers, pasta salads, grilled shrimp and chicken, buffalo wings, mozzarella sticks, pitchers of soda and beer, cheap wine, cheesecake and always, always a "Death by Chocolate...
Events the club has held in the past include a trip to the circus, an outing to the Indigo Girls concert, sleepovers, pasta parties and beer-fests, for which Klein brewed his own beer. And yesterday, the got the Currier House dining crew to serve up fusilli to the whole house...