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...York edition a few months ago. For the first time, formerly unfashionable cafes and family-style restaurants are ranked for value with the same care afforded Spago or Lutece. A wedge of ollalieberry pie at Russell's, an inexpensive Long Beach, Calif., eatery, is deemed "a slice of pure heaven." Not far away is the Shenandoah Cafe, where patrons "love those apple fritters...
...Classic (Premedicus Backstabus)--This notorious species of premed, feared by all phyla of preprofessionals, violates all codified premed mores. They fiendishly slice out copies of past years' final exams from library bound volumes, using scalpels smuggled from their labs. They magnetize videotapes of past lectures. These future physicians have even been known to pour acid on classmates' notes when they go to the bathroom...
...Trains Running Two-time Pulitzer prizewinner August Wilson continues to develop on regional stages his cycle of black experience in this century. Outwardly, little happens in this slice of life in a Pittsburgh luncheonette in 1968, yet the play subtly re-enacts the era's black political dialectic. The finale is pure serendipity: a petty street crime at once appalling and ennobling, pointless and profound...
DECORATION DAY (NBC, Dec. 2, 9 p.m. EST). James Garner plays a retired judge in a Georgia town who encounters the bitterness of a black World War II vet in this languid, treacly slice of Americana from the Hallmark Hall of Fame...
...with a song that makes her right for the kind of reappraisal this set encourages and amply justifies. Jazz fans should also take note. Rhino has just released a 16-track compilation called Jumpin' at Capitol: The Best of the Nat King Cole Trio, a heavenly slice of rhythmic virtuosity covering the years...