Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well Brennan's new hat will fit is another matter.* It is surely not one he is used to. Born and bred in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, given to plain speech laced with profanity, Brennan is a local power, to be sure, but he lacks a national constituency and-some would say-anything approaching national vision. Though he is respected by George Meany, he is not a member of the AFL-CIO executive committee. He speaks for a well-paid labor elite, not for the industrial rank and file...
...same food tastes different on Nauset Beach than in the Freshman Union. In its desire to process huge numbers of diners, Boston's Mama Leone's has lost any sense of intimacy and family that still lingers in the New York restaurant and supplemented it with large, noisy, open, plain dining rooms more reminiscent of the Greyhound Bus Station than Sunday dinner at the D'Arminio's. Thankfully, no attempt was made to make a month-old building look 100 years old by using plastic bricks, fiberglass rustic beams, and electric candles...
...Sanders. Sanders was a Fug. the original social satire-cum-atrocity rock band. He's done some truckstop music, too as well as some stuff that's plain weird like that book on Charlie Manson Whether he's going to read or sing or variations isn't clear yet. Danny Kaib lead guitarist from the Blues Project the one that spawned Al Kooper and Steve Katz, also appears...
...bottle of Teamster's Early Grave, convinced a conservation-minded wood nymph to transform herself "into one million board feet of one-by-ten of the very poorest quality neatly stacked in rail road cars on a siding outside of Fort Riley, Kans." Barthelme concludes: "Actually, he just plain cut down the trees...
...Chuck Stewart to commence preparations for his annual pilgrimage from Golf. Illinois, to the Eastern seaboard. His venerable Spalding putter--the one he used to ace out the guy from Columbia on the seventeenth hole--seven cases of Hamm's Beer his DKI sweatshirt, a wrinkled and somewhat threadbare plain jacket from J. Press York Street. New Haven, and one very blonde Midwestern girl--all of it went into a creaking and rather obscene '64 Thunderbird, the same one he had tried unsuccessfully to unload on this ensign from Harvard when he was in the Navy. It had become...