Word: barroom
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...sourpuss hitchhiker picked up by Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces. (Oyster describes Johnny Appleseed, who spread non-native plant life, as "a f______ biological terrorist.") All the while Carl struggles with his impulse to wipe out everybody in his path who annoys him. Because his path runs through barroom blowhards and rude librarians, to say nothing of Oyster, that's a lot of folks...
...third period. It began when Bear forward Tye Korbl leveled Harvard senior defenseman Liam McCarthy in the open ice. After the whistle, every player on the ice got into some sort of scuffle with an opposing skater, and for the next few minutes Meehan Auditorium looked more like a barroom than a skating rink...
...Jang's latest project, Resurrection of the Little Match Girl, a big-budget cyberfantasy that he's shooting in the southeast port city of Pusan. On location there isn't a whip or handheld camera in sight. A sleek stunt team from Hong Kong bustles about, fine-tuning a barroom shoot-out featuring a gunslinging, transgender Chinese starlet. You can afford that with a $5.5 million budget, which makes this Korea's priciest film production of all time. Forget the art-house crowd. This time Jang is worried about pleasing his investors and drumming up big ticket sales at home...
Perhaps because of his mature appearance, Bannon proved remarkably good at it. Presenting a fake ID to a bartender is a tense interaction, pitting one's willingness to deceive against the bartender's need to preserve his job. In a darkened barroom, judgments are notoriously arbitrary. But Bannon's stickball ID proved infallible, never let him down, and he imbibed at will at the taverns of his choice. Often this would be at a notoriously unvigilant bar like New York City's Malkan's, whose entire business model seemed to be based on serving minors. But the seasoned bartenders...
...once knew a man who was a heroic drunk. He left mess and destruction in his wake - broken glasses, smashed furniture, bounced checks, bitter and exhausted wives. His motto, which he stole from the British classicist Benjamin Jowett, was a line he would slur grandly to the barroom after 10 or 12 drinks: "Never apologize! Never explain...