Word: pub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sings repeatedly throughout the movie translate as, "Tell me that I'm beautiful, that I'll be beautiful forever." Husband, lover and Sophie are always eager to maintain this fact, and the movie several times cuts from Irene's face to the statue of an angle above the London pub of that name. Despite her demanding and abrasive personality, Irene assumes a semi-divine status, the image of the perfection to those surrounding her: on the other hand, leads a temporary and contingent existence. She will retain her somewhat exalted only so long as she remains within the ambit...
...court in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to appeal his 1975 life sentence for the murder of a former British soldier. (Hill has been freed pending the legal outcome.) One of the so-called Guildford Four, Hill served 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of an I.R.A. pub bombing -- a story told in the film In the Name of the Father. He is married to Courtney Kennedy, Robert's daughter...
Okay, we're freshmen. To tell the truth, we're not 21. We can't, legally, buy liquor. We can't, legally, go to say the neighborhood pub. However, it is no reason to print articles depicting us as nose-picking, diaper-wearing, e-mail-crazed board-game-playing losers...
With that, Ms. Werner grasped us firmly by the ear and showed us the door. That evening, as we sipped our lonely pint in the neighborhood pub, we reflected that perhaps a career in journalism was not for us. On the other hand, we didn't know what was. How we envied the Ms. Werners of the world, who could jet off to Aruba whenever they felt sulky...
...jail for seven days without being informed of their charges, he begins a saga that will prove this petty thief to possess a greater moral conscience than the representatives of the British police and judicial system. Mercilessly abused during questionings, they eventually learn they are accused of bombing a pub in Guildford. However, they are innocent: "We didn't even have the bus fare to Guildford even if we had known where it was," Gerry recalls. By the time the case is brought to court, the "Guildford Four" have been joined by various members of Gerry's family. His little...