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When asked how he feels about the California Avocado Sandwich, a guacamole, alfalfa sprout and cheddar cheese affair, Donald R. Franklin '98 responds, "Oh my God. I've had one at the Union, and I don't know what makes it from California as opposed to any other state." Franklin, who lives in San Diego, goes on to say, "Mexican Toppers--that's about the only thing they get right that's Mexican. I should know because I live right next to Mexico...
...chrome-and-glass hotels and offices--monuments to raw capitalism. Where the leafy streets were once blessedly quiet, they now reverberate with the rumble of bulldozers and the honking of car horns. Bicycles and pedicabs, once the only traffic, struggle to keep up. As new factories and office buildings sprout across the city, the antique sewerage and water systems are being pushed to the breaking point...
...rule, people have a minimal interest in family trees from which they themselves do not sprout. So Frazier may encounter some initial reader resistance, particularly since he was able to track his ancestors back to the 1600s on his father's side and the 1700s on his mother's. There are an awful lot of names to keep up with in the early stages of his story, and their relationships to the author ("Comfort Hoyt, my five-greats-grandfather on my father's side") can dizzy the genealogically challenged...
...with the opposite sex. Frank has a snappish relationship with his landlady, played by Shirley MacLaine, and is too raffish for Piper Laurie, who is excellent as a dignified lady he meets at senior-citizen matinees. Meanwhile Walt moons over a young waitress (Sandra Bullock). Also written by a sprout, Steve Conrad, and directed by Randa Haines (Children of a Lesser God, The Doctor), who specializes in the woes of isolation, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway aspires to be serious about its subject. Yet in a curious way this sobriety works against it. Frank and Walt turn into schematically contrasting case studies...
...Leavitt and Peirce were this cheap I would develop lip cancer before graduation. But as he handed me my change, Tim lowered his voice and leaned across the counter. "Between me and you, chief, those aren't Berings." As the night wore on and canker-sores began to sprout in my mouth it became more and more obvious to me that Tim had been right, that for seventy five cents I had gotten not a Bering, but a falsely-labelled fifty cent cigar of Phillie Blunt quality or lower. But while I didn't come away from the smoke shop...