Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Garden is one of the best of the '70s era, laid out in a series of handsome dining rooms in two 1870 town houses. The most popular spot is the rambling garden with flowers and yellow umbrellas. The moderately priced food has a homemade freshness, with such creations as prettily garnished salads, bright carpaccio of beef, or steamed clams, oysters and mussels in a chive + broth. Moist Dover sole, broiled with bread crumbs, and grilled squab nested on pecan-studded wild rice are fine main courses, and there are outstanding desserts, among them a little box of chocolate wrapped around...
...setting that is both romantic and historic, it would be hard to beat Deux Cheminees, laid out in two antique town houses. The rich cooking, nouvelle and bourgeoise, and the friendly staff add up to delightful if fairly expensive dinners. Good starters are the creamed wild-mushroom soup and the goujonettes of Dover sole, the crisply fried ribbons of fish bedded down on greens and topped with a creamy vinaigrette dressing. Green peppercorns add pungency to nicely sauteed duck breast, and the impeccably sauteed, crisp-yet- supple sweetbreads are delicious, even though their tomato-flavored sauce can be too intense...
...flight from megacounties as people begin to reflect on the quality of life there. I am a refugee from the highly touted San Diego megacounty, and I left because I disliked the air, noise, traffic, crime and stress of living with 2.2 million other people. I moved to a town of about 300 residents, where I live on 67 acres of land, which includes a barn and a pond teeming with bass and bluegill. To the person who claims life in Southern California is "like being on vacation except you get to live here," I say small-town life...
...would seem a nightmare; his work environment to most would seem hell. After a day of breathing the iron filings in the New York City subways, one would think he could blow his nose and sink a Hudson River liner. Worse, a braking train in a tunnel in this town can sound like a ten- ton banshee caught in a vise. And yet there he sits, caressing an acoustic guitar in bedlam, playing Bach and Mozart, Francisco Tarrega and Erik Satie, and one of the reasons he got his back up about it was that the city had the gall...
...wunderkinds who inspire pride, envy or both. Her mother came from Saigon to New Orleans in 1980 to be near a brother. Cat soon followed. Her mother got a job teaching elementary school and rented a long, skinny house -- a shotgun house -- hard by the levee in the little town of Gretna. Cat conquered English, became an honors student and grew to a height of 4 ft. 9 in. She also got an after-school job in a grocery, where she has to stand on a case of beer to reach the cash register...