Word: pub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have their wild rhetoric. It may both stiffen and imprison the spirit. Sometimes people cannot escape from their songs. The Irish gift for the instant ballad that glorifies this afternoon's martyr will ruin a human heart and turn children into killers, the heroes of tomorrow's pub songs...
...failing business at the same time. But in 1980's Sydney. Australia, the girl next door is a Toyah-coiffed punkette who's not averse to finding true love in a one-night stand, and the mom and pop business is the HarborView Motel, a working class pub with a vintage Fabulous Fifties interior that squeaks like your grandmother's plastic slipcovers...
...looks are no coincidence but rather part of an elaborate send, up of what Australians love to hate-the British and the Americans. Jackie's heartless, penny-pinching pub-tending mother (Margo Lee) is a dead ringer for Margaret Thatcher. Clad in a garish polyester pants suit, she layers on the lipstick and tells Jackie, "Why don't you stop wearing those ridiculous clothes, you can't change who you are." American politicians fare no better in Armstrong's vision. One of the film's best moments features a maniacal sound booth engineer presiding over a chaotic television...
...restrained Reagan of Tuesday night had flowered right back into vintage Reagan by Wednesday. He traveled to Boston to show his commitment to job-training programs that help the disadvantaged and prepare the nation's labor force for the transition to high-technology industries. After visiting the Eire Pub "men's bar" in the Dorchester section of Boston (he took just one sip of his Ballantine ale) and discussing business problems with a group of executives, he uncorked a jaw-dropper, suggesting that abolishing corporate taxes might be a good idea. "When are we going to have...
Just as Watergate sprang from a bungled burglary in Washington, Liffeygate grew from something insignificant; an after-hours drinking session in a bar in Boyle, a country town 90 miles from Dublin. Last February, police raided the pub and took the names of the people they found drinking there after the legal closing hour of 11 p.m. Normally, summonses would have been issued and small fines imposed...