Word: snacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholarly pursuit. Philip Langdon's Orange Roofs, Golden Arches (Knopf; $30) is an exhaustive social history of chain restaurants. Googie: fifties coffee shop architecture (Chronicle Books; $12.95) is a more polemical and quirky work. Author Alan Hess, a California architect, takes as his nostalgic prototype a Sunset Boulevard snack shop built in 1949 and zigzags through a hot-rod-and-chili-dog architectural tour that celebrates old McDonald's outlets, car washes and Las Vegas casinos--all the pushy, flimsy '50s buildings that Hess calls "agitprop for the commercial future...
...Molly's white BMW jackrabbits through the midday traffic as she drives from home to drop by her dad's luncheonette in Van Nuys. Bob's Snack Bar: "Where the Elite Meet to Eat." Ringwald, a burly, gray-bearded man, has been blind since he was ten; he took over the restaurant last year under a Government program to teach retail-management skills to the handicapped. Most days he is up at 5 and works in the shop until late afternoon. When Molly greets him, he stage-whispers, "I can't have you coming in like this. All my customers...
...Pink script several times; at the premiere, she sat beside him and whispered descriptions of the sets, costumes and gestures. "Didn't think it was much of a story," Bob says bluntly, and he is as cheerfully caustic to his regular customers. His goal is to buy his own snack shop or maybe even a small restaurant-nightclub where the Great Pacific Jazz Band, the septet he has led from his piano for 20 years, can play. These days, they've got a regular Sunday gig in Encino. Sometimes Molly drops by to sing...
...spending $2.1 million teaching Californians to pronounce his name. (Try shout without the t.) This campaign, in a state as vast and variegated as California, must be waged in 60-second television ads, which must be fueled by endless fund raisers. As Zschau explains, between bites of an airport snack shop's meatball sandwich, "You simply can't shake enough hands and kiss enough babies to get elected in this state...
Indeed, later this spring, the Undergraduate Council's Residential Committee will propose a structural change to the meal plan which would allow students to use "missed meal" creates at a late night snack bar either in the Science Center's Green House cafe or the Lehman Hall cafeteria...