Word: pubbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largest shareholders of Time Warner by virtue of his stake in TBS. One reason he may support it is that it increases the value of his company's investment in tbs by $670 million. But he may also want a sweetener. "Malone is a genuine genius,'' says Tom Southwick, pub lisher of Denver-based Cable World magazine. "His frictionless mind will find a way to make this work to satisfy his own shareholders.'' He is bargaining, for example, to ensure that TCI will have access to Turner and Time Warner shows...
...recently released their first album since 1992's U.f.orb. It is really a mini-album, a sort of appetizer to Orb's new follow-up full-length album. Orb really takes on the metaphor of appetizer, calling the album Pomme Fritz, and naming some of the tracks after English pub food--"Pomme Fritz (Meat 'n Veg)," "More Gills Less Fishcakes," and "Bang 'er 'n Chips...
...book." The Rolling Stones, who did The Rocky Road to Dublin, a roistering waltz with an impish touch of Satisfaction thrown in, showed up with their own bar. Moloney's tight charts soon surrendered to jam-session chaos. At gig's end, the genial mob adjourned to a pub and quaffed Guinness until 6 in the morning...
...charged with indecent exposure for dropping his pants in front of a group of women. He then gave them his phone number and address and dared them to turn him in. (As good Singaporeans, they did. Leeson was fined $140.) One of his favorite hangouts was Harry's Pub, a small dark bar where the sounds of a jazz trio pour out onto a stone walkway. Says Mary Bell, a Singapore family therapist who works mostly with expatriates: "They really are just kids. When they are all together at Harry's Pub, it seems like they are a universe unto...
...reputation as Barings' master of SIMEX grew, however, Leeson's tastes changed. He gradually spent less and less time in Harry's Pub and moved upmarket to a row of bars closer to home. One of those he favored was 5 Emerald Hill, an understated establishment favored by the artistic community. There, surrounded by walls of peeling paint and cooled by electric fans, he would listen to blues and soul in the evening, drinking gin and tonics or whiskey, perhaps staring at the apple slices in the giant jar of vodka or the bottled snake on the liquor shelf. When...