Word: mannion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Owner Thomas W. Mannion says the pub has one ofthe longest licenses in the greater Boston area,and has been in the same location since the 1930s...
...projection-screen set goes for $6,999. Panasonic's 56-in. projection model might appear to be a bargain at $5,999, but it can pick up only nondigital broadcasts--unless you buy the optional $1,700 digital decoder. Prices will eventually drop, of course, but Bill Mannion, general manager of Panasonic's TV division, acknowledges, "It's going to be a while, maybe years," before most consumers can afford HDTV...
...Aunt Ida on the reservation in Montana. Her father turns up in the last chapters with a couple of elderly white ladies who are, surprisingly, his Irish-American mother and his aunt. By this time the novel has traced Rayona's tangled lineage from her great-great-grandmother Rose Mannion, a formidable immigrant from Ireland. The author follows a chain of matrimonial disasters involving weak men and angry, churchbound women who wish they had married someone else. Bridie, Rayona's great-grandmother, is one of these harridans. She speaks gloatingly of withholding sex: "I taught my husband...
...from the guy who's waving a baton at them. If Kaplan at Salzburg did not bring to mind a slick stick like Riccardo Muti or Valery Gergiev, his intense, attentive manner in front of the Philharmonia, the Vienna State Opera Chorus, mezzo-soprano Doris Soffel and soprano Rosa Mannion bespoke a firm grasp. Mahler's heaven-storming climaxes shook the Grossesfestspielhaus to its granite foundations, and anyone who did not feel a chill at the tremendous peroration must either have been dead or Austrian...