Today everything is different. I can't even get decent food. Right after I got here I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce a...nd I got egg noodles and catsup. I'm an average nobody, I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Too often when you thought you'd be showered with confetti What they flung at you was a plate of hot spaghetti... You've put your fancy clothes and flashy gems in hock Yet you pause before your father's door afraid to knockLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The master plan was laid out months ago. Jack Kemp would give 200 rubber-chicken dinners (sometimes it's meatballs or just cocktai...ls) between Jan. 1, 1995, and Jan. l, 1996. What the plan did not say was that he would be expected to deliver the same lines, ingratiate himself to political hangers-on and, most humiliating of all, beg them for money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The colored people arrive, sit firmly down, Eat their Express Spaghetti, their T-bone steak,... Handling their steel and crockery with no clatter, Laugh punily, rise, go firmly out of the door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public conci...ousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but i...n America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here lies a man who was killed by lightning; He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening.... He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble, But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't think of myself as a sex symbol or a servant. I think of myself as somebody who knows how to open the door of a 747 in the... dark, upside down, and under water.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »