Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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processional axes, broken by sudden revelations of mass and space. The pub lic, pronounced one Beaux-Arts professor, "need never ask the way in a good plan." Ideally, one was carried forward by the logic of the plan as, at a play, one was swept along by the plot. The buildings were meant to unfold. This feeling for ritual movement, the promenade, would almost disappear from architecture in the 20th century; and yet it was functional. Gamier was one of the last to recognize that fantasy and ceremonial had valid roles in secular architecture. People did not just...
...going on at "White Meadows," a red brick Edwardian mansion just outside of town. When it was sold last spring, its name was changed to "The Red House." Guards patroled the grounds, and no one from the place so much as set foot in the Sycamore Arms, the local pub. Late one night last week they found out. Switching on powerful floodlights, a force of 100 policemen raided the three-story house. While they made no arrests, they claimed to have made some interesting discoveries: nine .22-cal. bullets in a stairway cupboard (but no guns), books by Lenin, Marx...
Stanton Devis and the Ghetto Mysticism Band. This fine Jazzy rocky local favorite can be heard at a nice little table in a nice little club, with a nice big beer pretty good conditions. At Pooh's Pub on Comm Ave in Kenmore Square tonight through Sunday...
...trade-off with him. If he would continue studying classics at the academy, she would permit him to spend as much free time as he wanted practicing the pops. After she and Stanley Dwight were divorced she permitted Reg to take a job playing piano at a nearby hotel pub. At 17 he quit school just two weeks before final exams and joined a decent band called Bluesology, a rhythm-and-blues outfit. From 1964 to 1967 he was on perpetual tour. Typical gigs were at the South Harrow British Legion and the Nottingham Rowing Club...
This verdict would delight the Pythons. They have done their best to remove themselves from boring reality and construct something far more pleasurable. It was in a London pub in 1969 that John Cleese and Graham Chapman, gagwriters for the Frost Report, teamed up with Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle, similarly disaffected writers from Britain's then booming satire business. They decided to start their own program. The BBC did not balk when told that the show would be "anarchic and free." Recalls Cleese: "They thought they were getting another latenight satire show. It wasn...