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...must have, descendants of the illicit sexual liaisons that often transpired between prospectors and the black washerwoman who worked in the mining camps. A series of hastily strung-together clauses ensues, and the story abruptly terminates in Morris’ existential questioning in a township bar: “These bar-room companions buddies comrades, could any one of them be men who should have my family name included in theirs? So where am I from. What was it all about.”What, indeed, was it all about? The weirdly divided subjectivity evinced by the narrator?...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nobel Winner’s ‘Beethoven’ an Uneven Performance | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...ideal place to sip tea and snack on sunflower seeds while warming your toes beside a wood fire. HAZEL BAR Run by a former policeman from Xi'an and his wife (after whom the bar is named), this friendly pub, tel: (86-887) 822 3210, consistently hosts the noisiest, merriest parties in town. The food is excellent, and there's an attached guesthouse. Don't forget your earplugs if your threshold for bar-room rowdiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shangri-Bar | 5/12/2005 | See Source »

...HAZEL BAR Run by a former policeman from Xi'an and his wife (after whom the bar is named), this friendly pub, tel: (86-887) 822 3210, consistently hosts the noisiest, merriest parties in town. The food is excellent; and there's an attached guesthouse. Don't forget your earplugs if your threshold for bar-room rowdiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shangri-Bar | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

Bailey is the alienated loner who preaches the pure, and he is rejected and betrayed by all of his peers. He gets into a bar-room fight with Hogan, a proponent and potential foreman of the plant. The people in the town resent being publicly lectured by Bailey, and Hogan gives Bailey the beating that is supposed to teach him silence...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: Almost Is Not Enough | 11/29/1997 | See Source »

Fiebert says he found himself "intrigued with the possibility of how cool bad guys can be," while Eilenberg wanted to utilize the desert and bar-room settings to "get people to laugh in new, unexpected ways...

Author: By Benjamin R. Kaplan, | Title: Pudding Chooses Script | 10/4/1995 | See Source »

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