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...opulent afterlife that they now have. They did not busy themselves building their official libraries, those temples to a President's selective memories of power. They did not enjoy lifetime Secret Service protection and hundreds of thousands of dollars in Government allowances. Ulysses Grant went broke and, dying of throat cancer, spent his last days laboring over his autobiography to make some money for his survivors. By today's rules, King Lear would have spent a happy retirement on the golf course...
...Julia Child Creative Cuisine Prize is awarded with lip-smacking gratitude to Myra Mayman at Cabot House. Each Friday afternoon Mayman and her gastronomic aide-de-camp Christine King prepare a different set of ethnic appetizers. Last week's cornucopia was Mexican, including throat-clearing Margaritas, spicy nachos, and the best guaeamole outside of the San Fernando Valley. Mayman flexes her Office of the Arts muscle to bring over a guest artist or performing talent each week, providing a serious threat to A-World's dominance of the Art-with-a-capital-A scene. Nevertheless, the parties are frequented mostly...
...solo swoops gracefully and reverently around them. The words, though, are pure vitriol, worthy of an especially pissed-off Dylan or a younger Graham Parker. The extremity of its despair makes this song frightening, with appropriately violent references to love letters that are "pushed back down your throat and leave you choking...
...Chuck finished him [a Druze militia man] with the classic knife attack. He grabbed the man's collar and twisted hard, dragging him downward, choking, with his throat exposed. The movement almost drags the throat onto the knife, and Chuck cut both the artery and the windpipe in a single...
WHALEN and O'Hara are good, hardworking cops, and largely unappreciated. We felt the same hostile sidewalk stares that they did. We saw few people thank them. We watched them grab a man who had his hands around the throat of a young woman in a barroom doorway. The woman called them pigs...