Word: aficionados
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smoky lounge provides an atmosphere reminiscent of an era long gone by. Savor your Macanudo in the upstairs parlor overlooking the rest of the shop. An apt place to muse over Hemingway and O'Neill, its hospitable environment also fosters study breaks for the chessmaster as well as cigar aficionado...
Ahhhh, yes--an evening with the classics. One can envision the sequence of events: the unsuspecting Shakespeare aficionado heads off to the Loeb Ex last weekend to take in a showing of Pericles. This play, being one of the late romances, naturally contains all the elements one might expect from Shakespeare's pen: sea burials, royal courtships, knightly jousting, hired assassins, tempests, poison, whorehouses, incest--incest?--basketball tournaments, stripteases, the electric slide...and, of course, pirates...
...aficionado collapses in a dead faint...
...vast majority of those who drop in during the weekend seem a sophisticated and relatively prosperous crowd. But, Fernie said that his actual goal is to cater to both the tea aficionado and the first-timer, making the place accessible to those who otherwise would have thought of tea as "snooty" and "Victorian...
...starters, these movies have the same costume designer in miracle-worker Sandy Powell. And, as any true aficionado of the Kevin Bacon Game can tell you, Wings' Elizabeth McGovern was in the otherwise forgettable romantic comedy The Favor with Interview star Brad Pitt. (Actually, The Favor is forgettable anyway, unless you're curious how Brad looks in wire-rims...