Word: plain
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...Coupole, a barnlike old brasserie that had served as home to Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett; it was acquired by a restaurant chain, torn down and rebuilt in 1988 into a sort of yuppie grazing center. More felicitous was the 1986 transformation of the Cafe du Dome, a plain, bare sort of place, where an impoverished writer used to be able to get a saucisse de Toulouse and a plate of mashed potatoes for about $1. One section of the Dome has been turned into a really excellent fish restaurant (Michelin gives it one star), with a comfortably...
...summer. Price begins with Boatner's reflecting, "I'm as peaceful a man as you're likely to meet in America now, but this is about a death I may have caused. Not slowly over time by abuse or meanness but on a certain day and by ignorance, by plain lack of notice...
...common room will also be used "for just plain social environment," Wilson said...
...England Championships last weekend, the Harvard men's rugby team got caught in the mud while the women's team was just plain overpowered...
...Israel. On Sunday, Agudat Deputy Avraham Verdiger phoned the spiritual leader's office for political guidance. The rabbi's spokesmen implied that this was the first contact between Jerusalem and Brooklyn. Others familiar with Schneerson's modus operandi say that a message had already been transmitted from Brooklyn making plain the rabbi's desire to derail Peres...