Word: cafes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what is this, Dizengoff Street?" yelled one Israeli soldier, referring to Tel Aviv's cafe-filled main street. He was surprised to see journalists in civilian clothes on the newly secured Israeli bridgehead in Egypt. We, however, were nervous. Armed only with pink press passes, tourniquet bandages and surplus broadbrimmed British helmets (which were a source of amusement to Israeli soldiers, who wear snug-fitting U.S.-style helmets), we joked about our lack of passports and the Geneva Convention regulations concerning captured journalists...
Bullet Eyes. In Washington, his songs were an infectious blend of Moorish folk chants, tough cafe tunes and lyric ballads of the Greek islands. Most were narrative in style. Some were set to his own poems (Put off the light! The guard is knocking./ Tonight they will come again"), others to those of the late George Seferis of Greece and Pablo Neruda of Chile. All were tuneful, simple, direct, almost thunderous in their momentum - and impossible to resist. Theodorakis conducted the concert with windmill waving of the arms that bespoke the amateur maestro but was nonetheless effective. When...
...expect the teenagers to stay when there are so few fish left," asks the woman behind the counter in a bar and cafe near the municipal pier. "We can barely make money any more now that the goddam Russians are stealing all the fish...
Leaving home at 14, Haggard stole cars and drank, basically--bumming around the country for five years. He finally ended up doing a couple of years in San Quentin. (Drunk, he had tried to burglarize a cafe which wasn't even closed. He says prison frightened him into "reforming...
Only a chain restaurant like La Crepe would promenade its waitresses in French costume and headdress to impersonate an intimate cafe. The effort, needless to say, fails miserably...