Word: tenderloin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps its most remarkable attainment is that the premise and structure, which sound inordinately egghead when described, are easy to grasp in performance. The action begins with the detective (James Naughton), a rumpled knight of the tenderloin who lives by a code of honor in a world of thugs and well-heeled thieves. Moments later the story shifts to the office (coyly labeled a "cell") where his creator labors as a hireling of a movie tycoon more crass, smug and fascinatingly awful than any envisioned by Nathanael West. As the tycoon (Rene Auberjonois) lays down the law (no social criticism...
...relocation angered residents of the Tenderloin district, where hundreds of elderly and impoverished people were evicted from damaged transient hotels after Tuesday's devastating 6.9-magnitude quake...
...near Miami, for example, people of all stripes come from miles around to dine at Los Ranchos. Opened in 1981 by Julio Somoza, nephew of the former Nicaraguan President, the elegant establishment is a beef house in the best Latin tradition. The house specialty: churrasco, a center cut of tenderloin marinated in chimichurri -- fresh chopped parsley, olive oil, garlic and spices. On a Saturday night at Versailles, the undisputed palace of Cuban cooking in the heart of Little Havana, Anglo couples slurp mamey milk shakes made from a sweet tropical fruit, while Cuban workmen just off the swing shift savor...
...character of the town and the region been so threatened. "We're getting a little class," says Victoria Smallidge, owner of the Pineland Diner, who moved here in 1970. Call it what you will, some locals are uneasy about a diner that offers a wine list and tenderloin with bearnaise sauce but holds mashed potatoes and meat loaf in contempt. American reporters discuss stories that straddle two worlds: a log-sawing contest in Brooklin, Me., and drug-awareness week at nearby Bucksport High. These days lawyers and real estate agents seem to outnumber clergymen and clam diggers. Even the lilting...
President Bok and Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci joined by some of their top sides talked turkey about town and gown relations last night over ziti with red sauce and tenderloin at a dinner held a Cambridge Hospital...