Word: placing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Happy or not, the crackpots soon unleashed the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, the atomic bomb. Ever since, Los Alamos, like Bethlehem in Judea, has been a place difficult to visit in a neutral frame of mind. Los Alamos is part rich, overachieving exurb beset by worldly goods and ills familiar all over the U.S., but raised to the nth power; part lonely company town. But, above all, it is an intellectual hothouse not quite like any other...
...PLACE IS AT THE EDGE. An hour after showtime, it is packed with more bodies and the mirror behind the bar is steamed with human heat. The little black box is itself pumping when the lead guitarist breaks his Sex Pistols cover and chants with his bass player, DESTROY-DESTROY-DESTROY and he disappears behind the drummer, who keeps a steady, low roll. The singer emerges from the other side of the drums wearing an Iranian flag shirt and American flag pants. There are 50 safety pins mending the rips in his shirt. They do a song called "Take...
...have a G.S. 13 but I've never used it," says Sid. "Louise said to me, 'you know how long you would last in a bureacratic job? About two months.' I'd blow up the place. Besides, it's a happy scene, it's not a pressure thing...
...Their tiny eatery is hard to find--with the tracks from the Orange Line blocking much of the light over the sign, and the heavy window grating taking care of the rest--but harder still to avoid, since everyone in Dudley Station seems to know where it is. The place opens every day for breakfast at 5:30 a.m., stays filled with customers until after noon, and finally closes after dinner...
Matthews's one and only goal is to be independent, and he would even forsake the security of a franchise restaurant for the autonomy of owning his own place. He was offered the managership of a Pewter Pot restaurant in Central Square, but "I don't want anybody to tell me how to run my place. If I feel like I should sell curry goat or short rib, they going to tell me no. I don't want to be a Pewter Pot." He doesn't want to accept orders from the manager of a chain, and he doesn...