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...alone, facing an urban wilderness." A more precise definition of the breed came naturally enough from Chandler, the American-born, British-educated creator of Philip Marlowe, the detective who got more similes to the mile than anybody before or since ("as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food"). Laid down in his essay The Simple Art of Murder, Chandler's description of the fictional American detective has the power of an ecclesiastical oath: "He is a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common man or he could...
...specimen at Acorn on Oak, a bar and grill in Chicago. Most familiar among workaday sandwiches are the coffee-shop regulars: bacon, lettuce and tomato, tuna or egg salad, the classic combo of ham and Swiss cheese, grilled cheese and bacon and the lavish club, a three-slice pileup with two "decks" of filling that at its purest includes sliced chicken, bacon, tomato and lettuce. Less orthodox but currently more fashionable in New York City is the $22 club sandwich at the American restaurant Arcadia, where chunks of lobster replace chicken--never mind that the abundance of toast, bacon, tomato...
...Each of the Vaughnums has been suppressing some secret; each ends by realizing that some seeming impossibility has come to pass. While all this adroit plotting is going on, the characters are interacting so naturally, with rowdy humor so integral to their personalities, that Lonely Street seems more a slice of life than a "well-made play." Even in the two most finely honed scenes--when Ruth and Raymond discuss why, despite their affection, they have always avoided each other, and when Miss Anna learns the truth about her parentage--Deer never allows the audience enough emotional distance to perceive...
...credit cards and pay only cash. Reformed Debtor Barbara Aissen, a 49-year-old nurse at Miami Children's Hospital, recalls her own reaction upon hearing this suggestion. Says she: "I didn't have to think about it twice. I said, 'Where's the scissors? I'll slice these cards in half right...
...swagger and flippancy of that remark were qualities, shared and multiplied among a staff of intrepid writers, that made the show into a certifiable cultural phenomenon. S.N.L. was the first network program to cut off a slice of the energy, irreverence and scapegrace spirit of rock culture. It was also the first major forum for the comedy underground that had begun to form in the late '60s. This was humor influenced by Mad magazine and the National Lampoon, Ernie Kovacs and Monty Python, William S. Burroughs and Johnny B. Goode. Under the shrewd editorial tutelage of Producer Lorne Michaels, this...