Word: hangout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Legend, later told friends that he had moved in a Communist circle in Tokyo when off duty from Atsugi. Other Marines were surprised to learn that he spent some of his liberty hours at the Queen Bee, one of Tokyo's three most expensive nightclubs and a suspected hangout for intelligence agents from various nations. Even though dates there cost up to $100 a night and Oswald took home less pay than that in a month, he began appearing at Atsugi with one of the Queen Bee's prettiest hostesses. When he was assigned temporarily to Iwakuni...
...English remains a performance as well. Once, Slava bounced into the Russian Tea Room, Manhattan's best-known musicians' hangout and, spotting an old friend across the crowded room, released a full-voiced salutation consisting of several raunchy eleven, twelve-and 13-letter cuss words. The room grew silent. The borscht turned pale. "See!" crowed Slava cheerily. "I learn your language...
When De Niro does make the Hollywood scene, he has a cool, humorous sense of who he is. He enjoys going to the Roxy, L.A.'s top rock hangout, and likes to drop in at On the Rox, the club upstairs that is the last word in Hollywood exclusivity. As he was buzzed on through not long ago, a guest asked if he was a member. "No," said De Niro, "but they let me use the place...
...primary sources are court records and the people on the right side of the law." Even interviews with the good guys can be delicate. Barrett recalls an organized-crime investigator who suggested dinner at a well-known gangster hangout, explaining, "That's the kind of place where people make a very serious effort not to hear what's being said at the next table. It's safer to be deaf...
...insecure enough to see an analyst three times a week. If he meets someone he knows after a session he may stop him on the street to rehash it. His office is on Fifth Avenue, but his favorite headquarters is Elaine's Restaurant, Manhattan's top celebrity hangout. He often winds up his 15-hour days-usually early in the morning-at his fourth-floor walk-up bachelor's pad on Manhattan's East Side with a diet cola and a Stouffer's short-ribs-of-beef dinner. He cooks four at a time...