Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...words of one diplomat, "it forces the Marcos government to address an agenda that others help to define." So far, however, Marcos, a master of survival, has shown a remarkable gift for writing the agenda himself and for keeping all the perks of power safely inside his own pocket. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Sandra Burton/Manila
Like many controversies in the Big Apple, this one quickly involved the ebullient, omniactive Mayor Edward Koch. Alfredo Viazzi, owner of Trattoria da Alfredo, a pocket-size Greenwich Village eating house, squealed to the press that hizzoner was a frequent brown-bagging customer. What is more, Viazzi dared the liquor authority to do something about it. After all, Viazzi said, "nobody is going to arrest the mayor. It's crazy. I've been letting my customers carry in their own wine for 12½ years and keeping everybody happy. Now they find an old dusty law and they...
...restaurant's business guests receive blank cards (3¼ in. by 5 in.) that display the silhouette of a polo player astride his mount. At the American Harvest Restaurant in Manhattan's Vista International Hotel, diners receive a thin pad that slips into a shirt pocket. Still, some places resist the trend. Says Harry Poulakakos, 45, owner of Wall Street's popular drinking spot Harry's at Hanover Square: "If someone asks us for paper, we give them a yellow legal...
...exceptions are Leon's mother and Novelist Pete Dexter, 40, who in God's Pocket (Random House; 274 pages; $14.95) turns a random incident into a picaresque romp. Jeanie Hubbard Scarpato, still pretty in middle age despite a life that has "had more sorry chapters than the Old Testament," refuses to believe that the son she raised on her own from infancy after her first husband's death would simply let something fall on his head. Mickey, her current spouse, cannot disagree; he feels unworthy of Jeanie, probably with cause. He drives a refrigerated truck and sells...
Author Dexter, a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, piles on more complications and coincidences than his novel ought to carry. What saves God's Pocket from flighty sensationalism is its impressive ballast of local color. The fictional neighborhood named in the title is a white, working-class enclave in South Philadelphia that seems all too real: narrow houses, streets, lives; a place where the Hollywood Bar, the social hub of the area, does "half its business before noon." Some of the novel's best times are spent at the Hollywood. Mickey hears a drunken woman praise...