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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laborer downing his half-liter of beer. The war veteran nursing his Calvados-laced coffee. In villages, farmers gather after a day's harvest for a shot of pastis and a dice game. In cities, shopgirls pause for orange juice and a croque monsieur, the grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich that is one of the mainstays of cafe fare. "Parisian zincs are the ideal theater of the comedy of man," observes the weekly L'Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bistro Blues | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

...Mattes, the Harvest, Brattle St. "We'll be serving dinner here and most of us will be having a cold turkey sandwich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Moment | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...gave up all that this weekend in favor of a road trip to Atlantic City, where things are as miserable as ever and old ladies, mesmerized by the blinking slot machines pump in quarters at 4 and 5 a.m. like it's midday and time for a tuna sandwich. Meanwhile, outside Bally's Grand Hotel and Casino the prostitutes parade up and down Pacific Avenue and drug dealers lounge in the shadow of the giant hotel. It was a relatively short hop from there to Princeton, New Jersey, where we arrived just in time to miss the muddy Harvard-Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weekends | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...throw your clumsy gait into hot pursuit, the sandwich checks its bank account, buys a copy of Vanity Fair and nose-dives into the T-stop. Once there it rushes past the hordes of outdated punks on the escalator, skillfully nutting one or two with its crusty end, and just manages to get on the tram going downtown (disguised all the while as a proper baguette). At your generous and unwitting expense, your ex-lunch is probably, at this very moment, holidaying in the Bahamas and sipping on fruity cocktails. Meanwhile, back in that social epicentre and fair...

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: For the Moment | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

...changed. But it isn't. Government and politics in the U.S. is an enormously complicated matrix of power upon which bewildered voters are expected to decide every four years. Modern day life--a vast chasm of unknowing. In its place, the theater of politics rolls on. And my sandwich laughs on in bliss...

Author: By Tony Gubba, | Title: For the Moment | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

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