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This was especially true of our appetizers, which sounded simple enough but proved slightly overburdened. Winter Roast Salad ($9) was brimming with boiled fingerling potatoes, fresh, sweet yellow beets, maytag blue cheese, black olives and greens. However, the freshness of the ingredients was smothered by a pasty, creamy dressing. The Trio of Carpaccio ($13) was a similar case of good ingredients overwhelmed by sauce. Tender, delicious raw scallops, peppered beef, and tuna arrived on a platter elegantly garnished by veggies and greens. Each variety of carpaccio was doused liberally with a different sauce: scallops were accompanied by red pepper vinaigrette...
...There was a time when only domestic fat cats and foreign tyrants could bring a presidency to the brink of destruction. But Paula Jones has democratized the calculus of scandal. She earned $12,000 working for something called the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission--surely the bureaucratic equivalent of the Maytag repair service. One spring day, as she manned a registration desk at a conference, fate brought her into the line of sight of her Governor, who allegedly divined beneath her frothy perm a "come-hither" look. A state trooper appeared at her side, imploringly. She rose from her chair...
...content is king. But anyone who visited the Internet World trade show in New York City last week could see that's a lie. Downstairs, in the peasant quarters of the Javits Convention Center, lots of struggling Web publishers huddled in drab booths and unadorned stalls, lonely as Maytag repairmen. Who among them could afford to rent a place on the ground floor...
DIED. JESSE WHITE, 79, kindly character actor who appeared in more than 60 films and was best known as TV's original thumb-twiddling Maytag repairman; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...that. This was not the first time I've carefully explained to my wife something she already knew. I do it all the time, and it's never an absolutely splendid experience for either of us. In this case, my wife had actually met someone who was once a Maytag repairman, working alone in a rural area. He hated those commercials about bored repairmen. Apparently, people would call him to get their appliances repaired, and he'd tell them that, given his appointment schedule, he wouldn't be able to get out there until the following Tuesday...