Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.
Calvin TrillinGiven the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.
Calvin TrillinBefore I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.
Calvin TrillinKeeping off a large weight loss is a phenomenon about as common in American medicine as an impoverished dermatologist.
Calvin TrillinI suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays โ they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the yearโbut what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?
Calvin Trillin