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...glimmer of history is strongest in Reardon's portrait of Waters, proprietor of the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse. In the 60's, as part of Berkeley's student radical movement, she cooked for her fellow activists and published recipes in a leftist tabloid. She opened her restaurant in 1971. A $5 meal included main dish, wine, salad, and a showing of a Marcel Pagnol film...

Author: By Karen M. Olsson, | Title: Gastronomic Trio Simply Delicious | 12/1/1994 | See Source »

...sexual banter, but also for avidly watching pornographic films and reading pornographic magazines, which he would describe to his friends in lurid detail." Acquaintances say when they heard testimony that Thomas had asked who put a pubic hair on his Coke can, they recognized his characteristic style. The proprietor of a Washington video store near EEOC headquarters tells the authors that Thomas was a regular in the X-rated section. A lawyer who knew him then recalls running into Thomas at the register renting The Adventures of Bad Mama Jama. Kaye Savage, a friend who once dropped by the bachelor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: The Unheard Witnesses | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...regular 12-to-five business day for us," said Harvard Shop proprietor Paul Corcoran. "I'm Irish, not Italian...

Author: By Margaret M. Ou, | Title: Columbus Day: Sun, Not Commemoration | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

...makes me proud to be an Italian because Columbus not only discovered America, he gave America an Italian name," said Franco Graceffa, proprietor of the North End restaurant Dolce Vita. Graceffa even offered a Columbus Day special yesterday--cannelloni stuffed with spinach and topped with lobster meat and ricotta cheese...

Author: By Margaret M. Ou, | Title: Columbus Day: Sun, Not Commemoration | 10/11/1994 | See Source »

...then there is the misfire between the female bookstore proprietor and her male manager. "The bookkeeper needs help with the billing. What would you think about helping her out?" she asks him. The manager replies with "O.K." -- which really means, "O.K., I'll think about helping her out." Days later, he has yet to assist in the task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Women Too Nice At the Office? | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

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