Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sometimes worth it. Yet another costly place, Lafayette, is notoriously snotty. In the same see-and-be-seen class, La Grenouille and La Côte Basque offer wonderful food-it is all terrifically expensive-but without the same hauteur. Elaine's (Second Ave. at 88th St.), an Upper East Side Italian restaurant, is a favorite of New York literati, media heroes, publishers and assorted recognizable people. But the food is third-rate and outsiders are exiled to the back room. It is a serious mistake for anyone who is not George Plimpton to go there. On the other...
STAGE WHISPERS. Hard by the upper-level entrance to the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station is a stone arch. By stationing themselves at one corner and partners some 50 ft. away, visitors can articulate messages sotto voce-and have them delivered with the fidelity of a CB receiver...
...same issue of Harper's there lies a piece as gentle, kind and honest as Wolfe's right-wing medicine man's act is none of those things. I mean Joseph Epstein's article on confessions of an upper-middle class sports fanatic, wherein the editor of The American Scholar says there is no sense in which one loves sports through motives of slumming--you know, identifying with the workers' leisure time pursuits--vicarious violence, metaphysical truths, or returns to adolescence. Some of us are maniacs about the Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Bengals or the St. Louis Cardinals...
...buildings are being modernized, and a glass enclosure is being erected to protect outdoor stalls. The Faneuil Hall Marketplace is scheduled to open in late August, and its future looks promising. The lower floors are rented out to merchants and restaurateurs, the upper ones to lawyers and architects. Like neighboring refurbished buildings, the market has a special zest, one that will help make the waterfront a place worth the trip-or the move-to downtown Boston...
...another process of settlement is also taking place on the distant coast of the Pacific. Just the week before last, a weary band of 193 Spanish colonists and their families arrived at a large bay on the coast and pitched their tents. This sixth and northernmost Spanish installation in Upper California is on what the Spaniards have named the Bay of San Francisco...