Word: restaurante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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--O.J. Simpson attorney Robert Shapiro, apologizing for distributing fortune cookies from a fictitious "Hang Fung" restaurant to celebrate defense victories over embattled Asian-American criminologist Dennis Fung
"Imagine you've been living in the country for two or three years. You've got small children, your husband is working a service job, maybe in a hotel or a restaurant, and he's battering you. Who do you turn to?" she asked the audience. "Currently, 70 percent of...
The delineations of a date are infinitely problematic. For example, the other night, I somewhat reluctantly accompanied a male friend to the North End for dinner. As we sat in the lounge of a shitty Italian restaurant (I'm allergic to Italian food) waiting for our Formica booth to be...
Marler recounts these events with distinct charm and skill. He uses a breathy, confidential tone for most of the narration, and his stylized hesitations lend a note of naturalness without seeming awkward. When he does assume another voice, as in one monologue imitating a conversation which he overheard at a...
Back in Cambridge, I commented to my newly-legal roommate oh-so-politically-correctly about the wealth of "alcoholically-enabled" people we saw on our way to dinner. When we arrived at the restaurant, the hostess mentioned the enticing prospect of white peach margaritas. I couldn't resist. I had...