Word: pizzas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Debris? Empty pizza boxes are debris. Copies of The Harvard Independent, Perspective, The Salient, The Advocate, Padan Aram and the Harvard Lampoon are not. Nor are any of the other publications that hundreds of students on this campus spend hours of their time trying to get people to read...
Drat! It's raining outside. Let's order in. Pizza again? Chinese? Just for a change, my dear, let's try a pate de foie de canard, an oyster salad, quail with grapes and, oh, let's be daring, a tarte aux framboises...
...customers, however, complain about curdled sauces or curling asparagus tips. "It's always delivered just right," says Manhattan investment banker Harry Ozawa. He treats himself to home-delivered delicacies two or three times a week. Why? Because, explains Ozawa, it's so much nicer than eating pizza every night. At $125 or so a pop, it should...
...companies are even adding commercials for local businesses, which include everything from pizza parlors to car washes; these ads are sometimes in addition to those already inserted by the studios. With the same kind of self-righteous growl a dog utters when a rival approaches his dinner bowl, Paramount, which started the phenomenon with Top Gun, has brought suit in a federal court in Wichita to stop such Johnny-come-latelies...
Wade is also abstracted. He becomes a fugitive whom Rolfe imagines to be "the gray-faced man who shoves circles of frozen dough into an oven at the Mr. Pizza at the mall and lives in a town-house apartment at the edge of town until his mailman recognizes him from the picture at the post office." Rolfe's message that despair breeds violence is forcefully delivered. Too bad that he keeps getting in the way of an even stronger story...