Word: pub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unemployment. James' interview with a pub manager revealed that he knew "bugger all" about the wine trade, and he flunked the psychological test for guards in the London subway. But he worked briefly and erratically as a librarian, factory hand, statistician and publisher's assistant. His digs were more makeshift than his jobs and included, besides a succession of repressive rooming houses, a converted coal barge with a toilet that tended to fill up with the bilges and a paper mattress wrapper on the floor of somebody else's room. One of his roosts was so tiny that the chief...
...success of his first film, "Crocodile" Dundee, and he's likely to sound like the laid-back grandpa he is rather than the hottest actor to come up from Down Under since Mel Gibson got his driver's license. "We're doing real well," deadpans the self-described former pub lout. "And I'm feelin' real well." Bet you are, mate. The story of a crocodile poacher who trades the dangers of the Australian Outback for the perils of Manhattan's urban jungle, Dundee was already the top-grossing film in Australian history when it opened...
...Carla Bley Band, a sextet jazz rhythm section, will perform at Cambridge's Jonathan Swift's Pub on Wednesday November...
Last night the five went to Waltham to entertain Brandeis students at the college pub. Two weeks ago they played at Jack's on Mass. Ave.; the week before they had their own show at The Channel. And the five musicians say it won't be long before they're a nationally-renowned group...
...fifth terrorist bombing to hit the French capital in ten days. Only two days earlier, a violent blast in the driver's license section of Paris police headquarters had killed one and injured 51. Like that attack and others earlier at a post office, a cafeteria and a pub, the Tati outrage appeared to be the work of the Committee for Solidarity with Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (C.S.P.P.A.). The shadowy organization, apparently made up of Marxist Maronite Christians and based in Lebanon, has claimed responsibility for ten Paris bombings over the past nine months, leaving ten dead...