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First the terrorists threw a grenade, then they followed it inside, methodically firing their Polish-made machine guns. As the carnage began, a waitress was coming down the stairs, tray in hand. "I thought a bomb had gone off," she said. "There were people, chairs, blood everywhere. Then one of them saw me and began to chase me, shooting. I ran down the hall, him following, until I made it to a window. Somehow, I got out." Calmly, the killers finished their business and departed in a white car. Six were dead, 22 injured...
...food here is line It's the trays food on a tray whether at Harvard or elsewhere, inevitably tastes like over-bolted potatoes or reconstituted scrambled eggs. Sometimes it tastes like halibut cheese casserole, and that when it's time to head for the exit...
What accounts for the show's resurgent popularity? The Cleaver household is quintessentially suburban, the prime-time equivalent of John Cheever's sunlit lawns and the immediate ancestor of Steven Spielberg's split-levels. June forever emerges from the kitchen flawlessly coiffed and groomed, carrying a tray of freshly baked cookies. Ward, like all TV dads, disappears between 9 and 5 to a nameless job, but his real occupation is mowing the lawn and having heart-to-hearts with the boys. Wally, earnest and rather thick, is a slightly more amiable and less somnambulant Rick Nelson...
...proud to say I have tasted every one of them." A poodle and a boxer, both wearing yarmulkes, sit mournfully by the graveside of one Spot Moskowitz. Steven Ford, once a President's son, now a soap-opera regular, gets bopped on the head with a food tray. "Attention," a metallic voice announces over the hospital speaker system, "E.T., phone home...
...some sense transformed. Travel is process, a transit, a sheer going there as much as an arriving. Travel equals transformation over time. It is everything experienced from start to finish. What happens to travel when it consists of getting onto a big plane and eating a tray dinner and having a drink and watching a movie? And then getting off the plane at an airport much like the one we left and riding to a big hotel and finding a room where the toilet seat wears a preposterous paper sash FOR YOUR SANITARY PROTECTION? Our amazement at the world simply...