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...sudsy neighborhood political debate in his immigrant father's cafe and bar back in Springfield, Mass., O'Brien rose to play a unique national role. He managed John Kennedy's spectacular unseating of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in 1952 and directed Kennedy to the presidency in 1960. As chief congressional lobbyist for both Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, he led the drive that ended in the most significant social legislation since the days of F.D.R. Yet O'Brien was also with Jack at Dallas and Bob at Los Angeles. He agonized with Hubert Humphrey after managing Humphrey...
...laundry on the edge of a gaping hole in the wall that was once the window of her second-story apartment. Next door a few men pray in a gutted mosque, while turbaned workers, faces streaked with grime and dust, take a coffee break at Mohammed's Cafe. At one of the tables that sprawl halfway across the muddy street, Aly Rashid sits drawing honey-flavored tobacco smoke through the long tube of his pipe...
...only section of The Little Theater that I can imagine making people feel uncomfortable is the last one, about an old man who discovers his young wife with a lover, decides that the conventions of his village don't matter, and goes back to the village cafe with them both for a drink and a game of bowls. It's the most detailed and realistic of the three sections--the one that seems most consistent with the credo in My Life and My Films, that "every human creature, artist or otherwise, is largely the product of his environment."--and perhaps...
...Reflections's strongest point isn't what it does for the patrons. In an uncharacteristic move for a cafe owner, James doesn't seek the big staid names in the music business and instead puts local talent at the microphone...
JAMES HASN'T YET found a way to circumvent a Cambridge law which forbids brass or percussion instruments in his cafe, but the piano and guitar and woodwind instruments are enough to draw out for hours even the smallest item on the menu...