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...accompanies a gang of guys, less frequently a gang of women, sometimes an individual. Sometimes he joins his friends at the Delphic Club (where drinks are cheaper because Club members mix their own), but most often he makes the rounds each week between 33 Dunster Street ("33 D"), Casa Blanca ("Casa B."), The Idler, Ha'Penny, and Cronin's. Apparently not a man of habit, he alternates his drinks--along with drinking partners and locale--mostly between beer and scotch. And then, "for those occasions when I feel scholarly," Dave says, tipping his head back, raising his eyebrows, and adopting...
...other well-known pickup joint near the Square is, of course, the Casablanca, under the Brattle Theater. Upstairs at the Casa B. is always full of single women, while the downstairs is generally preppie. They make good mixed drinks, though. The Casab tends to card more than most Cambridge bars, so bring ID, real or otherwise...
...Germans, Arabs, Chinese, Eastern Europeans and others. From spring to fall, New York resounds with different ethnic parades. Emigre Tibetans maintain an Office of Tibet on Second Avenue. Then there are the Caucasian-Sircoisian Cultural Center, the Grupo Folklorico Paraguayo, the Korean Community Foundation, the Serbian Folklore Group, the Casa Galicia...
...quite live there but sort of romp around and squeal. Also a neighborhood cat. "I'm the only woman in the neighborhood who doesn't work full time, so I take care of everybody's children," says Do?a Eloina. "People around here, they call this place the casa de locos, but they don't understand. Children, they are everything. People ask me when I ever get any peace. I find peace right here, right now, with these children. Not silence, maybe, but peace...
...months ago. But last week the violence took a new and ominous turn. A bomb exploded at the army headquarters in Buenos Aires, injuring 28 (including four colonels), killing a passing civilian truck driver, destroying a dozen vehicles, and even shattering windows more than 300 yards away in La Casa Rosada, the presidential palace. The left-wing Montonero guerrillas claimed responsibility for the blast, which seemed to signal an ugly change in their strategy: a new willingness to risk the maiming or killing of innocent civilians...