Word: beers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undermined. It's hard to see gambling fever as a killer disease in a sick society when Gould's caricature is at work. He's riding on a great big California high, living in a house where there's no sense of time, where breakfast is Froot Loops and beer, where people "crash" when their "action" cycle runs out, where an aging hooker named Barbara gropes around looking for "The Guide." They're all too exhilirated by the California high to be sordid, and Gould's love of gambling for its own sake undercuts Segal's tortured loser. With these...
...Beer is 50 cents and simple hard drinks are $1.00, slightly higher at night. Open noon to 1 a.m. every night except Thursday and Friday, when it stays open 'til 2 a.m. No cover charge...
...full of brand-names. The decor is pretty much the same inside, and if you sit facing the wrong way, your meal will be highlighted by a neon ticker that tells you what you will want to masticate. The specialties at the Wursthaus are eastern European food and exotic beers from the world over, which all Harvard freshmen buy so they can have pretty rows of beer bottles on their mantlepieces. The prices are moderate here and the "special"--a luncheon buffet upstairs--commands $2.75. The food is quite good, though, and the Wursthaus really offers one of the most...
...place seems to attract a lot of townies, but maybe some of those people are freshmen who have come over from the nearby Yard--it's hard to tell the difference these days. It is routine to be carded, at least on weekends. This place provides live entertainment (loud), beer and more potent alcohol, and little else. There is no atmosphere, only noise. Somehow or another, the Oxford Ale House seems out of place in Cambridge, at least as out of place as Yale would be, and hopefully more...
...playing on the field will be nothing like what transpired under the Boston Rules a century ago, and the fans will not be able to watch the action for a half-a-buck. Nor will the proceeds go to the entertainment of our visitors--they can buy their own beer...