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...menu boldly describes Charlie's as a haunt "Where Cooking is an Art and Eating is a Pleasure." In a sense, Charlie's is a throwback to the era when everyone gathered at the neighborhood diner, with patrons and staff greeting newcomers with...
Over in the AL, Pat Hentgen of Toronto is a throwback to a time when starting pitchers actually finished games too. Kudos also to the Milwaukee Brewers, who have played almost .500 despite a minuscule payroll and a no-name roster (can anyone name their starting outfield...
...advantage as he captures Gotti's magnetic blend of arrogance and affability and thick-necked earnestness. Gotti ruled by gut and fist, and he had little tolerance for the mahogany-paneled sedateness of dons like Carlo Gambino and Paul Castellano, who derides Gotti in the film as "some throwback to our street days...
With gestures like that, she became a walking riposte to the palace, with its narrow, dated code of royal behavior. As has been pointed out many times, she was, if anything, a throwback to the Queen Mother, with her common touch and effortless rapport with ordinary people. When senior courtiers tried to limit Diana or downgrade her, they just looked pompous...
...striving to keep outsiders off the ballot. If the ruling holds, it certainly could make the primary more competitive, although depending on what happens in Iowa and New Hampshire, the nomination could be sewn up by then." Many Republican candidates have complained bitterly that current rules are a cynical throwback to machine politics, making it all but impossible to get on the ballot without the support of the state's Republican organization. That apparatus is led by New York's Sen. Al D'Amato and Gov. George Pataki, both of whom back Bob Dole...