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  • There's of course a New York eatery named Bagel Delox, and it may be pertinent that Mimi Sheraton, food critic of The New York Times, on Aug. 31, 1976 described the service at most bagel restaurants in New York as "haute schlock" [shlak ` stroke, 'hence ` disaster,' ` junk '; schlacht ` slaughter'; shlogn ` to hit '] -- without quotation marks or italics.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2 1983

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