A hefty, celebratory, coffee-table slab of a book, packed with stats and pictures like a book about sport.
Vintage Black Glamour, a hefty, handsome new coffee-table book, is full of such stories, with photographs of those shunned by the spotlight, as well as idiosyncratic, unseen shots of those who weren't.
They're all here, hundreds of photographs, lithographs, maps, paintings, posters, playbills, music sheets and assorted artifacts from the irreplaceable collection of the Museum of the City of New York, gathered together in NEW YORK 400 (Running Press, $40), a hefty and handsome coffee-table book.
Surprisingly, the $9 room-service Continental breakfast (usually a euphemism for overpriced and undernourished) was too big to finish: a plate of mixed fruit, a thermos of coffee, a hefty glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice, two muffins, a biscuit, a glazed cinnamon roll and five pots of jam.
The Hope and Champion – a paradoxically old-fashioned name for a new glass and steel box nestled between a budget hotel and a Starbucks at Beaconsfield services on the M40 just north-west of London – opened at 4am to the alarm of road safety groups, but spent almost all its opening morning serving tea and coffee and hefty fried breakfasts.
Mr. Corbijn's hefty résumé includes four coffee-table volumes (mostly of celebrities and rock stars) and dozens of music videos for the likes of Depeche Mode and U2.
The huevos rancheros and pancakes arrived in hefty, tasty portions, and the coffee was plentiful.
Like many airports, Midway has begun to embrace local cooking — its branch of Manny's, the classic Chicago deli and coffee shop, serves hefty slabs of corned beef and stuffed cabbage and deep bowls of homemade matzo ball soup.
Powers is the local favorite for making Irish coffee because of its hefty, honeyed flavor.
That's the story told in Randy Leffingwell's officially sanctioned anniversary volume, so hefty as to be almost a coffee table in itself.
But analysts said that the iced coffee and fruit drinks posted hefty profit margins for the companies and brought in new customers, thereby extending their customer base and propping up sales.
