Word: pico
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entry like "Lionel Barrymore, on one of his many visits to the Cork & Fork before it was opened, was once heard to remark, in his off-the-cuff style of humor: 'Say, this is good.' " And the menu of San Francisco's Señor Pico describes one bestseller (beef stew) with this line: "It's a real son of a bitch...
...best avoided. But the beer is nearly sublime -and it or bottled water makes the saf est drinking. Mexican specialties like ceviche (marinated raw fish), huachi-nango (red snapper) and caldo tlalpeño (piquant chicken soup) are worth the visit. Reservations, whether for a restaurant típico or for one of the top international restaurants, are required. Lunch begins at 2 p.m., dinner at 9, and prices are about 30% under comparable fare...
Antonio (Marc Pico) is a young carpenter who decides to leave his village for Paris, where his craft, he hears, is in great demand. His friend Carlos had made the trip before him and had promised to find him a job. Since immigration regulations are troublesome, Antonio makes contact with an under ground network that, for a fee, smuggles men into Spain and across the French border...
...look their roles and read their lines without a hint of theatrical emphasis or timing. The Portuguese peasants are clearly not actors at all. but no professional performer could hope to match the direct simplicity of their response to the tragedy that surrounds them. Best of all is Marc Pico, a young French documentary-film director making his debut as an actor. I He does not so much play Antonio as become him, reflecting with puzzlement and pain the bitter reality of a man who sees himself turning slowly into an imprisoned object...
...restaurants carved out of an old chocolate factory by Architects Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons. Matson Line Heirs Mrs. William P. Roth and her son have spent $10 million on the project, lured such prestige tenants as Design Research and Trader Vic Bergeron, who put in a Mexican restaurant called Senor Pico's. Now the Roths are expanding further into an adjacent woolen mill...