Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obviously strikes a chord in the Greek soul. As viewers of the film Never on Sunday will recall, tipplers in the portside dives of Piraeus punctuate their drinking contests by breaking glassware, plates and occasionally furniture. In Athens' best clubs, people like Aristotle Onassis have been known to pay as much as $700 in damages for a single noisy evening of crockery tossing...
...expressed approval of the local bouzouki music as well as the manly exuberance of the thrower-presumably well-fueled on ouzo, the potent, anise-flavored Greek liqueur. Performers measured their success by the depth of the debris around their feet. Taverna owners loved it, since they were able to pay their bands by selling crockery to customers for up to a dollar a plate. In recent months, however, good times à la grecque were getting wilder than ever: bored with just breaking things-and perhaps bored, too, by the puritanical reign of Greece's military junta-merrymakers had taken...
...Entertainment consists of two bars and a movie theater that shows old films on Thursday nights, Sundays and holidays. Still, Palomares was a singularly prosperous town. As its lead and silver mines, discovered by the Phoenicians, finally petered out over the past 30 years, the miners were given severance pay in land instead of pesetas. Pride of ownership and an abundance of sweet water from deep wells coaxed from the arid land the best tomatoes in all of Almeria province. Since the bombs fell, the tomato crops have failed six successive times. Palomarenos blame radioactivity, but the failure may well...
Many people think that Halprin has already made that discovery, and about half of her audience consists of regulars who pay the $2.50 tab to make a myth a week. Even though he knew none of the other performers at one recent myth, a city planner said: "I had no feeling of alienation or strangeness." A real estate broker commented: "It's a new look at life, which we sorely need. Great!" Halprin herself says that for some people myths are "simply fun, for some a bore, for some extraordinarily sensual, for some a happening, for some a kind...
...start of an investigation into the high bail figure set for the four rebels. "This is not the kind of case for which bail would normally be required," said Dudley. "Someone has made a serious mistake." Deciding that the affair was serious indeed-and that someone ought to pay for their discomfort-the four commuters announced at week's end that they would sue both the railroad and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state agency that runs it, for false arrest and malicious prosecution...