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Face it, folks: Tommy's sucked. The perpetually undercooked burgers, as the staff rightly notes, hardened our arteries, and the fetid French fries sat heavily in out stomachs like so many rotten matzoh balls. Sure, Crimson editors have frequented the joint for two-and-a-half decades, but not for the oily atmosphere, astronomical prices, unfriendly help or intolerable faux-cuisine...
...River, and slowly eased its way up into the air to live in the celestial moment. The drug-like rapture of dreams and hopes untold erased the reality of a cold, wet night. But it was time to go. And just as the inevitable consequence of drink is a rotten stomach and polluted brain, so I fear a night of undiluted hope may be wrecked by harsh sobriety...
...Nothing but Blue Skies. The author's hero is a fortyish Deadrock, Montana, ^ businessman named Frank Copenhaver, who misplaces his marbles when his wife Gracie packs her bags. In this addlepated condition, he galumphs about drinking too much (or not enough; this isn't clear), getting into fistfights, making rotten investments and then affronting his bankers, eating frozen dinners and, in general, swinging about half a second late at a variety of pitches, many from local divorced women who think on small evidence that he may be better than nothing...
...whom affection comes easily, Crystal may have felt driven to test his positives. "It was easy to like Harry ((in When Harry Met Sally . . .)) and Mitch ((the mid-life ad guy in City Slickers)), but not Buddy. I wanted to elicit the complex affection for someone who does rotten things but who is not a rotten...
Illness and disease remained in constant residence. Tuberculosis was endemic, and so were scabrous skin diseases of every kind: abscesses, cankers, scrofula, tumors, eczema and erysipelas. In a throwback to biblical times, lepers constituted a class of pariahs living on the outskirts of villages and cities. Constant famine, rotten flour and vitamin deficiencies afflicted huge segments of society with blindness, goiter, paralysis and bone malformations that created hunchbacks and cripples. A man was lucky to survive 30, and 50 was a ripe old age. Most women, many of them succumbing to the ravages of childbirth, lived less than 30 years...