Word: pizza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predictable cast of characters and they go through standard performances. For example, the anguish of decision: "Anchovies leave a fishy taste in my mouth," says one of a duo. "But pepperoni gives me acid," says the other. "Well, you don't come to Frank's for pizza and get one without anything on it," the first returns. "Well, all right. Mushrooms," they decide...
...timid smile at a student whose face he recognizes from a previous evening. Beads of sweat along Frank's forehead glisten in the fluorescent light from the price board above him. He lightly touches the forehead that is growing at the expense of his receding hairline. "Very good. Mushroom pizza, for here or go?" he asks in a quiet, heavily accented voice...
Frank moves with the cat-like precision of a man who fears that the slightest delay, the faintest sign of tarry, will be interpreted as sloth by those who so impatiently await their pizza...
...been nine months since Frank opened the Harvard House of Pizza and almost 2 1/2 years since he came to the U.S. "I miss my town," Frank says. "It is 17 years since I live there." Frank is nervous when he talks, and his small hairy arms constantly gesture across the plastic tabletop to help express what his limited English finds so elusive. "I live past 12 years in other town in Greece." Frank finished high school in Thessalonika, Greece's second largest city, and then spent two years in college, where he studied to be a helicopter mechanic...
...Saturday night, a lone young man, very plain-looking with nearly-combed black hair and dark-frame glasses, sits at one of the four tables in the small store. He stares down at the steaming anchovy-and-onion pizza. With a slow, deliberate move he tugs at a piece of pizza, lifts it to his mouth, and begins to chew it, savoring his solitude with each melancholy bite...