Word: poolfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recently made efforts to reach out to larger and more diverse groups of people, a change in attitude which Christofferson said may have increased the diversity of the applicant pool and ultimately helped to make SAC less homogeneous...
Harry Chapin's "Taxi" blares from the overheadspeakers as one of the locals in the corner loudlydiscusses his upcoming vasectomy operation, onlytwo short days away. This time, Mike shoots hismouth off about Iraq, Monica Lewinsky, the Bruins'incompetence, and other topics to anyone who willlisten. Nearly every pool table is full. At oneside of the room, a bearded man in his early 30smoves slowly in a circle, practicing a cut shotfrom every diamond on the table. Two Latinopatrons in work-stained t-shirts speak softly inSpanish and slam home stripes and solids inongoing games of eight-ball. Next to them...
...crotch," one of the scruffy regulars in the corner chuckles as his partner shanks an easy bank shot and sends the two-ball careening toward the opposite corner of the faded green table. A cigarette-choked cackle from Mike, the manager of the place, rumbles into the small pool room through a slit in the wall of the ajoining snack bar along with screams and cat-calls from the Jerry Springer Show audience. Hazy light sifts in through the spotty second floor windows, but the men inside pay no attention to the day passing them...
This jungle of twisted steel obscures the smallside door entrance that opens onto a rickedystaircase. The staircase climbs past a signindicating the availability of the daily racingform, past the body-shop's accounting office andfinally into the pool room at the top of thebuilding. Seven thinly-felted tables are crammedinto this rectangular box, with windows on theleft side overlooking the repairmen below. Sully's1996 "Best-of Boston" award, which seems to havebeen photocopied and posted so that a copy isvisible from every location in the building, isfor "Best Neighborhood Bargain Billiards," andit's well-deserved--it's hard to imagine...
...walls here seem to have been decorated withthe spoils of a Salvation Army rumage sale. Abizarre portrait of an elderly man standing on acloud hangs next to a Budweiser mirror. Across theroom, a psychedelic Camel cigarettes postercontrasts sharply with a dusty and disorganizedplastic case of pool cues for sale. Near thebathroom, almost out of view, an engraved mirrorquietly requests "no gambling, no cussing, nospitting," while fake plants swing in ceilingbaskets along the windows. Every inch of wallspace is covered by something which was almostcertainly obtained for free, including thethoroughly-crooked set of house cues. Theexception is the back wall; this...