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While expense account dining is a legitimate point of debate, Carter's insinuations about the martini are not. Many suspect a religious and regional prejudice. "This is not exactly martini country," allowed the fellow answering the telephone at the Back Porch, the principal eatery in Plains, Ga. Charles Dennis, who owns the Back Porch, cannot recall seeing martinis drunk anywhere around...
While Carter has been away from home, the evil of deductibility may have taken root right in downtown Plains. Charles Dennis thinks that most of his Back Porch patrons are tourists. But now and then he sees a table of men looking suspiciously like businessmen. Dennis serves up his baked ham and red-eye gravy, grits, green beans, carrots, buttermilk biscuits and coffee, passes out the tabs ($2.50 a head) and asks nary a question...
...bathrobe, and his cane is the only leg he can really count on. Fonsia (Tandy) is encased in a mummy sack of a housedress, and she seems too utterly drained of strength to lift her frowzy bedroom slippers from the floor when she walks. Their mutual terrain is a porch that is peeling in genteel decay. They know all about decay; they are waiting-desperate, lonely, trapped-to find out about death...
...compliance with a federal regulation put into effect last June, which stipulates that recipients of federal financial aid make all their programs accessible to the handicapped, ramps for the disabled at Robinson and Boylston Halls and a porch lift in Emerson Hall will be ready for use next week, the assistant director for facilities said yesterday...
...sleep in the same room with my two brothers, mother and grandmother until sociologists and urbanologists informed me later. I didn't realize it was primitive to have to heat water on a coal stove for my Saturday night bath and to have to use the back-porch toilet until I was grown. Yet I feel lucky when I see many of today's youngsters leave their modern, publicly financed housing projects not realizing what respect, love, compassion or soap and water are all about...