Alan Brien quotes
New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite-the taxi driver.
The blue-rinse warbler and her horn-rimmed mate are rare and overdue this year.
The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting.