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...from five stubborn countries, the largest assault force in 132 years, and are fighting it out among themselves for the right to challenge for the America's Cup, a symbol of U.S. ingenuity, or treachery, or both, that is bolted snugly, smugly, or both, to a heavy oak slab in the West 44th Street rumpus room of the New York Yacht Club...
...meal here will run you about $5. The cheeseburger platter at Charlie's Kitchen at under three dollars is one of the better deals around just don't remind the locals who frequent this watering hole where you prepped Buddy's Sirloin Pit on Brattle St., serves a goodly slab of beet Brigham's on Mass Ave does not but it cheap...
...blue-rumped ape." Sir Mortimer Durand, His Majesty's Ambassador to the U.S. back then, was denounced as a fellow with "a mind that functions at six guinea-pig power." The Populist Senator William Peffer was immortalized as "a well-meaning, pinheaded, anarchistic crank, of hirsute and slab-sided aspect." That latter bit might make it a little difficult for the victim to throw off the effects with a laugh. Still, all of Morris' research on Roosevelt shows that deep down few adversaries could totally subdue affection for the Republican rouser...
Some of the malaise could be attributed to birth pains of the Palais des Festivals, a new brutalist slab that opened its doors after five years of construction delays. Unlike the older, airier Palais, the new building invited nothing but business, despite the exertions of Veteran Starlet Edy Williams, who would display herself whether anyone asked...
...Slab Boys is drawing an uncustomary Broadway audience, many in leather jackets and punk haircuts, perhaps because the cast features leading exponents of baby-faced macho: Kevin Bacon (Fenwick in the movie Diner), Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Jackie Earle Haley (Breaking Away) and Val Kilmer...