Word: pub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usually worked himself back into favor. Dylan was, after all, increasingly famous and boisterously charming. He could play the convivial clown entertaining the chaps at the pub, and the naughty boy whom women fought one another to comfort and reform. He encouraged such ministrations but certainly had no intentions of being changed. The poet chose for his bride Caitlin Macnamara, an Irish woman as flighty and flamboyant as himself, and promised her before their wedding, "You'll never, I'll never let you, grow wise, and I'll never, you shall never let me, grow wise, and we'll always...
When Chaucer's travel-weary pilgrims needed refreshment on their way to Canterbury, they stopped at the Tabard Inn. Much has changed in the past 600 years: local breweries are giving way, and contemporary wanderers are faced with more plastic and fewer local brews. Yet, as The English Pub by Rob Anderson (Viking; 111 pages; $25) makes intoxicatingly clear, a good deal of old English charm remains. More than 30,000 public houses continue to offer wayfarers in England an inimitable hospitality, glowingly captured in Photographer Andy Whipple's color pictures. Pub exteriors may go from Tudor austerity to Victorian...
McFarlane soon found the task frustrating. After getting along well at first with Secretary of State George Shultz, a rift developed over McFarlane's growing assertiveness in pub- lic appearances. McFarlane confided to intimates that he thought CIA Director William Casey had outstayed his usefulness and that Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was not adroit at anything other than advocating defense spending. He is known to have told friends that he was getting tired of "trying to move all these elephants around...
After a year and a half hiatus, the Ha' Penny pub reopened last Friday with the same low-ceiling, dim lights, stained-glass windows and assorted regulars that the pub has drawn since...
...Penny is probably the oldest pub in the area," says the new owner. Fraumeni, who lives in Arlington but is originally from Cambridge, has served drinks at the Ha' Penny since his college days...