Word: grendel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glenn sometimes got a little out of controlwhen he drank, too. At some parties, he wouldquote Beowulf and demand that everyone callhim Grendel. Then he would get sick on the carpet...
...Grendel's Den Bar (89 Winthrop St.). Downstairs at Grendel's Restaurant. Dark, smoky with a very eclectic crowd. Serves funky happy hour food...
...novelist John Gardner once wrote a version of Beowulf that was told from Grendel's point of view. There is a scene in which a wandering bard arrives among the drunken cretins and begins to sing beautiful songs to them about what they have accomplished that day in battle. Atrocity becomes glory, bloodletting becomes heroic. It is a shrewd point about mythmaking, and perhaps about the making of the myth of Camelot...
...going broke in the '20s, and Lassie was one of MGM's biggest money earners in the '40s. But now, it seems, nearly every movie, TV series or commercial has another of man's best friends wagging and barking away. Among the other rising dog stars of 1987 are Grendel, the yuppie puppy on ABC's family drama thirtysomething, and Bo, the German shepherd-husky half-breed of Summer School...
Other bartenders have noted similar increases. Aron, the bartender at Pizzeria Uno's, estimated that 30 percent of Uno's weekend business is Harvard students. And Grendel's owner Herbie Kulzer says his business has also increased now that the nearby Filly has closed...