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...wanted anything. According to custom,I always had to refuse twice--politely--beforeaccepting. Since we were family, Aunt Bessieusually skipped the three offer pas-de-deux andproceeded to reload my plate upon my firstrefusal. These reinforcements often includedsurprises like potato salad, pound cake, homemadeice cream and sweet potato pie. Amazingly, I wasalways able to finish off whatever was given tome. I guess she had a way of being able to discernexactly when I was about to burst, a term I don'tuse lightly...
...there's not a lot of optimisim to go along with the sweet sounds of Wareham's singing. "Crazy People," a standout on Lunapark, is fueled by a simple 6-note guitar riff, a steady beat and a gripping solo...
...detached French bourgeois. There is something to these oppositions, but the closer you look at them the more tenuous they get. Matisse was just as challengingly inventive in his Fauve paintings in 1905 as Picasso became, with Cubism, around 1912; and you can't really argue that the sweet portraits and huge lethargic women of Picasso's classical period, after 1917, have some radical quality missing from Matisse...
Dozens of blackboards proclaim, in colored chalk, the dizzying array of meals available at Bartley's. The menu itself is jammed with handwritten descriptions of pasta dishes, fried clams ("no bellies"), hot apple pan dowdy, cajun fried sweet potatoes, and of course, Mr. Bartley's celebrated burgers...
Patrons can also sample various forms of potatoes (sweet, mashed and French fried) when they order "Dan Quayle's 'Poattoee' Trio...