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...together to see the latest in Hammer horror--The Best in the Cellar, for example--and have a meal afterwards. His favorite place was a little dive just outside Soho (which caters to tourists and has higher prices) where for about a dollar you could get an entire chop-suey meal. Having chosen between chicken or beef chop suey and orange or tomato juice, Barrie would resume the conversation he had begun as we walked out of the movie house...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Barrie P. | 3/10/1972 | See Source »

ELIOT HOUSE lunch is the greets and near greats of the English Department over from Warren House. They shuffle single-file into the small dining room, their plates piled high with chop suey lovingly dished out by Lorraine-the P.T. Barnum of the Harvard Food Services-who, if she can for some reason resist patting Harry Levin on the cheek and calling him sweetheart, will have to bug hockey star Joc Cavanagh instead and call him "honeybunch...

Author: By Mike Kinsley, | Title: Moving Day Goodbye, Eliot House | 2/4/1970 | See Source »

Revolution of Convenience. Most of the sales gain will result from what the company describes as "the revolution of convenience." From 25 factories in 19 states, Maryland Cup turns out containers for everything from coffee to carry-out chop suey, and its growing plastics division ranges from disposable glasses for airline drinkers to "banana boats" for banana-split fanciers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Neat Feat for Nepotism | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...China, they have no chop suey; in Italy, you have to hunt to find a pizza with mushrooms; in Wales, a Welsh rabbit is only a rabbit; in Turkey, there are no turkeys; in Daiquiri (Cuba), it is almost impossible to find a daiquiri; India ink is made in China or Japan; in Spain, there is no Spanish rice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: The Barrendipity Game | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

...Republican urged his audiences to take their destiny out of the hands of the arrogant Democratic machine that had fed on the city for 20 years. In synagogues and soda fountains, from the scabrous tenements of Harlem to the polluted beaches of Sheepshead Bay, between blintzes and pizza, chop suey, knishes, pretzels and foot-longs, he remonstrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Incitement to Excellence | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

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