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...years of working on the show in Los Angeles, he says, he longed for the "griminess of the stand-up world." Even today, he says, "whenever I have the opportunity to go to an old bar in New York that has that smell-that beer-soaked wood, that cheap-wine smell-I just swoon...
...those accustomed to the typical North African couscous of Paris (moist yellow semolina granules doused with spicy stew - fast, cheap and filling), Wally's $55 Tuareg banquet is a camel of a different color. Diners have one choice: red wine or white. The set menu is a cavalcade of flavors so perfectly balanced that it hasn't changed in 30 years. First is chorba, a spicy tomato soup rich enough to restore life even after a day fighting the hordes at Versailles. A refined pastilla, a sweet-savory pigeon pastry dusted with cinnamon and sugar, floods the senses with visions...
...kept pushing in drugs. I asked him repeatedly, "Do you feel sleepy, Nick, or a little drunk, or anything?" And he just kept smiling, saying no and talking about wine recipes and the exploits of Leonidas. Sedating old people is a dangerous business - they can stop breathing in an instant - so by the time we had given him enough narcotic to drop a horse and he wasn't even sleepy, we knew we couldn't give him any more. We had to reduce the hip with Nick fully awake...
...understood this - maybe it was something a wounded Spartan hoplite might have done while being treated on the battlefield. Anyway, he got it. And, by Zeus, he relaxed. So I pulled, lifting Nick and an ER doc off the stretcher, and while Nick waxed on about sterilizing old wine bottles, I felt his new old hip pop back into place. The leg came out to length and was straight again. Everyone was relieved - everyone but Nick, who seemed a little annoyed that I was leaving to order another x-ray. He was just getting to the important part about...
...lives; they are the swords by which we live or die. So, should a two-minute TV commercial or a random website that sways the patient sway the orthopedic surgeon too? The answer is obvious - and it was embodied in my patient. Old Nick's confidence in his wine-drinking, Persian-stopping heritage told me it would be wise to have a little more confidence...