Word: barmaids
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...sang at one time or another, and although one long-haired jeans-wearing young couple danced like a cut out of Woodstock, the audience was a strict country crowd. There were ducksweep haircuts and fancy stitched pointed boots for the men and the women wore their hair up. The barmaid never stopped hustling, and every time she came by Nick obliged her, as he got further and further into this new society. When we sat down the woman told me I had a lot to learn about dancing in this town...
Rick Dillon (Keir Dullea), small time hockey hero and man-about-the-small-town of Delisle, Sask. (pop. 700), knocks around a good deal, getting up to no good. He rouses the passions of a loyal barmaid named Loretta (Elizabeth Ashley), even while leching after the daughter of the hockey-team owner (Dayle Haddon) and making up to a raucous number who works in the bowling alley over in the next town. Implausibly, Dillon has enough energy left over from these various pursuits to carouse with his lumpish buddy Pov (John Beck) and play a fierce, albeit mediocre, game...
...three are thrown together as schoolgirls during World War II. Evacuated from London to escape the blitz, Chloe and Marjorie arrive in Grace's village, where class barriers have sagged enough to allow Chloe-daughter of a widowed barmaid-into Grace's country house and Marjorie's company. The intimacies of this time are not forgotten. The girls move on to separate but similar lives. They marry, miscarry, share lovers and the care of children. They remain friends, although Chloe notes: "Our loyalties are to men, not to each other...
...search of the woman worthy of his heroic self-sacrifice, Tarnopol throws aside such winners, such female Tarnopols, as Dina Dornbusch (Sarah Lawrence, "rich, pretty, smart, sexy, adoring") on the way to his perfect losing cause. Maureen Johnson is a twice-divorced ex-barmaid out of Elmira, N.Y., afflicted by artiness, more than a touch of paranoia and a very odd walk. Roth often seems as baffled as the reader as to why Tarnopol should marry this "cornball Clytemnestra" for whom he feels no affection or even lust. Does Maureen represent the muse of disorder, the Dionysian element every artist...
...miners of Kalgoorlie's Golden Mile knew Herbert Hoover before the turn of the century as a young gold-mining engineer and balladeer in love with a local barmaid. Today Kalgoorlie is a nickel-mining center of 26,000, with 37 saloons, tolerated brothels and streets still wide enough to turn a horse team around. It is a part of a vast interior that few Australians ever see, since four-fifths of the country's 13 million people live in coastal cities. Together with such other way stations as Cookamidgera, Ivanhoe, Broken Hill, Bookaloo, Tarcoola, Koolyanobbing and Doodlakine...