Word: pastrami
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...thoroughfare is alive virtually round the clock. Some moviehouses close their doors only four hours out of 24. Many of the sidewalk food stands never shut up shop, and the blocks on either side of Times Square offer a pungent cosmopolitan tour of cheap cookery-hot dogs, pizzas, pastrami, chow mein, hamburgers, tacos. Garish neon lights stare down on cameras, transistor radios and the other gadgetry that will soon be bought by gullible visitors or grace the lockers of soldiers and sailors who have been on leave in New York. Record stores blare their wares onto the street while teen...
...white soda pop," he suggests, goes well with chicken. Orange Crush, on the other hand, is "particularly nice with duck or goose." Red meat, of course, demands either Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola. Dr. Pepper is splendid with game. A celery tonic or chocolate phosphate complements corned beef and pastrami, although "for the adventurous, an egg cream may be most pleasing." With cheese, almost anything goes, and for fruit and nuts, root beer is "almost perfect...
...kids call me Uncle Charlie. And he gave me a big hug." Says Elliott: "Charlie Lowe is exactly like Fagin. Whoever got any of the bread, if there was any to be had, the kids sure as hell didn't. Every once in a while we'd get a pastrami sandwich or a flashlight or something. God, Charlie Lowe may have my picture hanging up there in his studio! God knows, he's probably the first person who's responsible for my being conscious of what the hell show business is. But I had such negative conditioning that it made...
...quarter past two in the morning. Charlie's wife stands alone in the Scollay Square subway station clutching a cold pastrami sandwich. She hears an oncoming train. She winds-up to throw. But with a wooosh the train has come and gone at 70 m.p.h. Russian dressing oozes out onto the still-trembling tracks...
...Fernando Valley at 6:30, swims four quick lengths of his pool, hurries to early appointments at city hall by fire department helicopter. Staff meetings, paperwork and ceremonial functions keep him so busy that he frequently gulps clown a hot pastrami sandwich at his desk for lunch, often does not arrive home until...