I say "reputedly," because it, like most of the restaurants I wanted to sample on this trip, was fully booked on the day we arrived (note: make hotel and restaurant reservations ahead).
Landesman's poem, "Life Is a Bitch," reputedly a favorite of Bette Davis, is the title of Mary Foster Conklin's cabaret show devoted to Landesman's words, which opened at the Metropolitan Room last Thursday evening.
I may also try out parsley alongside parsnips to see if that makes any difference to the taste and I will definitely be moving a few of the wild foxgloves that have muscled their way into the back of the garden to the veg patch, now I know they reputedly help stimulate the growth of other plants.
The hills are small but spikily black, often unlike anywhere else in Wales, and the ridge of Carn Ingli can be seen from much of the county, a colossal angel in repose (reputedly; I've never been able to make it out, myself).
"When I see my arse in these paintings," she reputedly remarked, "I find it beautiful!" Toulouse-Lautrec got most of his best material while sitting on that bar stool with his sketchpad on his knees.
"I need models!" this reputedly open-minded, deep-thinking fashion star is supposed to have said.
I walk down Schildergasse, reputedly the busiest shopping street in Europe, and across Neumarkt.
In the early 1940s, IBM's president, Thomas J Watson, reputedly said: "I think there is a world market for about five computers". Watson's legendary misjudgment did not prove fatal to his company.
There was something else too: an historical echo in Pierre Gassendi, a 17th-century inhabitant of the area who reputedly answered Descartes' maxim, "I think, therefore I am", with his own: "I walk, therefore I am".
In one heated discussion with Clark, Jackson reputedly told him "I'm not going to start the Third World War for you".
