Word: pub
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Cape Town, my hometown, is a little like the pub in "Cheers" -- a place where everybody knows your name. And that may not be a good thing for the people who bombed a locally owned Planet Hollywood restaurant in the city's tourist-oriented Waterfront. Rounding up the usual suspects shouldn't prove too difficult for the police -- when a representative of a group styling itself Muslims Against Global Oppression called a local radio journalist to claim responsibility, the journalist is reported to have potentially recognized the caller's voice. It's that small a town...
...entertaining story excruciatingly told. Malachy tries to reproduce his pub palavers, forgetting that all the ensuing laughter came from people gathered around him who were drinking or already drunk. The printed page is a less forgiving environment. There, gassy circumlocutions quickly grow tiresome. Liquor is never straightforwardly liquor but rather "the waters of life" or "the spirits that cheer" or "the squeezings of Bacchus." When Malachy meets an Irish actor, he does his all too customary stage-Irish routine: "Begod, Sir, you'd never think the man was from Cork, atall, atall..." And here is our thoughtful memoirist...
...Whether or not Eliot had written down the Armageddon of the West, he had showed up the lightweight poetry dominating American magazines. Nothing could have been further from either bland escapism or Imagist stylization than the music-hall syncopation ("O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag") and the pub vulgarity ("What you get married for if you don't want children") of The Waste Land. Eliot's poem went off like a bomb in a genteel drawing-room, as he intended...
Springfield boasts a teeming gallery of low- and medium-lifes--surely the densest, funniest supporting cast since the '40s farces of Preston Sturges. The church, school and pub are places of refuge and anxiety. But home, 742 North Evergreen Terrace, is where the show's heart is, where everyone's despair is muted by familial love. Homer (whom the writers hold in a sort of amazed contempt) bumbles into some egregious fix. Marge fusses and copes. Lisa sublimates her rancor by playing her sax. And Bart is...Bart...
...manager of the Elephant Walk restaurant, which is moving from its current location in Somerville to the space formerly occupied by Finnegan's Wake pub in Porter Square and the manager of 7-Eleven, which is replacing Christy's Market at 36-40 John F. Kennedy...