Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When she visited London in 1949 as quite a young girl, Piri Halasz looked at the bomb sites, went to Madame Tussaud's, the Tower of London, Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop, and a pub where she remembers having "a dreary serving of watery mashed potatoes and Brussels sprouts." Somehow that wasn't enough to discourage her. She remained a complete Anglophile, majored in English literature at Barnard, wrote her senior thesis on T. S. Eliot, and went back last year to find a better England. It was L'Etoile and Ad Lib and the trattorias...
...seven staffers in our London bureau, as well as five U.S. and British photographers. They reported to the slightly jealous eyes of the editors in New York that the project involved four days of "the most concentrated swinging - discothéques, restaurants, art gallery and private parties, gambling, pub crawling - that any group of individuals has ever enjoyed or suffered, depending on your point of view...
...Tower in Bloomsbury. London's restaurants and clubs are, of course, famed for their superb wine cellars, and wine is a frequent companion at lunch. A new eating style is visible on all sides. In a tough workingman's neighborhood in Camden Town, a sign on a pub wall announces: "Cockles, Mussels and Scampi...
...many as six or seven speeches, in between riding from place to place in a motorcade, often standing in the open sunroof of a campaign car to flash his smile at bystanders. In the process, he has shed much of his computerlike coldness. Each evening he crawls from pub to pub, swigging stout, shooting darts and talking politics before flying back to London...
...Winston, the fare with the Watney's ale runs more to "the real English breakfast" (porridge, bacon and eggs), but it is being downed enthusiastically from 8 a.m. opening until 3 a.m., and pub-crawling is becoming all the rage. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford authorized their name and crest for the Bedford Arms, which opens next week; Slavik himself is planning two more pubs, one Cairo style, the other à la Singapore. "They will be much more crazy," he promises gleefully. "I don't want to be reasonable any more...