Word: menu
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...stop for coffee in the Main Street Cafe indicates that fantasy was not exhausted on the buildings. The menu still offers such sandwiches as "Amy's All American" (peanut butter with optional jelly), "Billy's Road to Recovery" (cold turkey), and a green salad called "Rosalynn's Remedy." Except for the silent caricatures on souvenirs and the now touching postcard photographs of a younger, happier Jimmy and an unharried Billy, that might well be all I'd have seen or heard of the Carters, unless I'd asked...
...family relations in casual conversation, I never heard the President mentioned until I brought him up. The silence didn't seem a result of gloom, and certainly not of shame or humiliation. Billy's breakfast hangout, the Best Western Inn of Americus, did list crow on the menu of Nov. 5; but that's only consistent with the air of amused and stoic relief that greeted all my inquiries...
...homey office complete with stained glass, eucalyptus-wood paneling, brass fixtures and white lace window curtains. Dr. Ronald Konopaski of San Francisco says that he has "tried to create an image similar to a beauty salon." The doctor's dental salon offers clients a rainbow-colored printed menu of services with fees. They can or der to taste - anything from a brush and floss ($5) to an examination with X rays and consultation ($55). In Oakland, Dr. Ernie Lavorini will gladly tattoo a butterfly or a flower on caps being fitted (there is an extra charge for the artwork...
...folklore of New York Jewry and gently spoofed the absurdities of modern family life; of a heart attack; in Brooklyn. A teacher of high school Spanish for eleven years, Levenson amused his pupils by recounting tales of his poor but happy childhood and strict but loving parents. ("Our menu at mealtime offered two choices-take it or leave it.") After he turned his classroom routines into a nightclub act, the portly, bow-tied comedian was an instant hit on television and host of his own show in the 1950s. His storytelling often shaded into serious commentary on child rearing...
There are, of course, various types of editors in the game. At one extreme are the acquisition editors-"belly editors," in trade jargon-who do their most important work at lunch. There the menu and the contract may get a more careful reading than the manuscript. Then there are the creative editors, who see their task as the finding and overall shaping of a manuscript. Finally, there are the pencil editors, who work line by line on messy or complex manuscripts (although that chore is often left to copyreaders...