Word: pub
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apprentice, a weak young boy from the workhouse, is brought to the pub through a magnificent storm (Britten lets his furious storm music in each time the pub door is opened). The second act finds Ellen sitting beside the boy in the Sunday sunshine; she discovers that Peter Grimes has already cuffed and bruised him. This is Britten at his musical trickiest: as she sings to the boy, a church choir nearby is chanting words from the Book of Common Prayer; first the soprano's voice, then the choir, fades in & out like music in a radio play...
...Birmingham, businessmen have been arranging conferences in hotels at night; by a happy coincidence, they and their wives would find that there was a dance in the hotel the same evening. Since farmers are allowed a gas ration for agricultural errands, many a car parked outside a roadside pub has a trailer holding a bewildered sheep or pig. If the owner, inside drinking beer and playing darts, is challenged by the police, he says that he has just broken his necessary journey...
...natty $75 suit. Officially, he is always on his way to or from "drain trouble." An enterprising publican near Birmingham bought a hayrick, stuck it in a nearby field, and advertised it "for sale." Farmers could drive to the field to inspect the hayrick and, incidentally, drop into the pub for a pint...
...places, television was meeting real resistance from the drinking customers. On Manhattan's Gin Lane (Third Avenue), and in Chicago and Los Angeles, barflies seemed to have reached a conclusion long since reached in Britain (where pub hours are short): "It takes up too much drinking time, you know." The more sophisticated had also become bored by anything but large-screen (at least 19 by 25 in.) telecasts...
...find out what his readers want, Mister Bart occasionally does a bit of pub-crawling. This has resulted in a New Look for Jane. After enduring several cold winters in bra and panties (or less), she has been more modestly clad; Bartholomew, impressed by the Mirror's political weathermaking, thinks her old near-nudeness "no longer seems right in a paper which people are taking seriously...