Word: tenderloin
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...back away from this." Buoyed up by a superior court judge's ruling that declared the strike illegal and ordered the policemen back to work, Alioto also tried to preserve calm among the city's 670,000 residents by strolling through the city's seedy Tenderloin district to demonstrate that the streets were safe. Exuding the slithery self-confidence that marks his campaigning, the mayor passed out roses to women, stopped to link arms with a grinning transvestite, and reaffirmed his claim that there was "no need for panic...
...reported Muckraker Lincoln Steffens, the mayor stacked the police department, then openly "laid plans to turn the city over to outlaws." A grand jury investigation eventually brought down the scheme. Eighty years ago, the sin-thumping Rev. Charles Parkhurst plunged state investigators into New York City's Tenderloin district for ten months of astounding discoveries about police involvement in brothels and gambling houses. Since then, a major investigation has been made of New York's Finest at almost regular intervals (1913, 1930, 1950, 1971). Chicago has a less metronomic, but even gamier tradition...
...stood in line for as long as three hours. The owner, Ed Carroll, sold more than 6,400 lbs. in one day and had to hire extra help. He worries whether his supply of horses will last. He also fears that the price of horsemeat (95? a pound for tenderloin, 65? a pound for sirloin tip) may soon catch up with beef...
...story ranch house, workmen put the finishing touches on baskets of Texas wild flowers hung from the limbs of live oak trees. Bouquets of chrysanthemums floated in the 40-ft. swimming pool behind the house. Cooks hovered over charcoal broilers, tending to some 200 lbs. of home-grown beef tenderloin; others monitored the huge vats where corn-on-the-cob was steaming...
...film has now achieved more or less legitimate distribution in Los Angeles and Manhattan, where it plays under the alias Censorship in Denmark: A New Approach. In San Francisco, de Renzy took the movie from what he jokingly calls his "sleazy lust house" in the tenderloin to a theater in the respectable Marina district. "We just couldn't fill up the theater with sex freaks," says de Renzy. "We are pitching to a much broader, middle-class audience." Not counting upcoming bookings in Seattle and Washington, D.C., the $15,000 venture has grossed some $800,000 in half...