This slim coffee-table book, full of arresting photographs, covers the days of national shock, from Kennedy's assassination in Dallas to his funeral cortege in Washington, with raw intensity.
The sleek entry espresso bar features Stumptown coffee and slim panini ($4.95 each -- try the simple, spicy mortadella).
Or it begins as he packs a tote bag with the usual slim thermos of strong coffee made in an Italian stovetop moka pot, a larger thermos of cold water, two tangerines, a package of Nat Sherman MCD cigarettes, and a plastic sack of raw almonds.
As always, cigarettes from the slim gold case and black coffee from tiny cups kept her going.
As he strode into Bank Street Coffee House in New Milford, slim and trim, he looked like, well, a rock star.
"People go there because gas is $3.01 and then they go inside and buy a $3 coffee or a $2 Slim Jim," he said.
Tall, elegant and supermodel-slim, the 45-year-old drinks coffee from a mug that reads "Keep Calm and Drink Wine", and the poise she radiates is maintained, you sense, to deflect any accusations that success has made her smug.
Official merchandise stalls did a brisk trade in T-shirts that commemorated his death in 2009 ($31), coffee mugs ($15) and a slim official program ($19).
The chances of Mr. Wood's finding the coffee shop seemed to grow slimmer with every passing street, road, avenue, drive, lane, place and terrace.
Looking slim, with his cowboy boots perched on the coffee table in his office, Mr. Richardson appeared both frustrated at his fall and determined to rise again, perhaps, one day, as governor or senator of New Mexico.
The menu includes Lavazza coffee drinks, rich hot chocolate, salami sandwiches on slim ficelles ($3.75) and crisp cellophane bags filled with candies shaped like pumpkins, walnuts and corn kernels ($2).
