Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sister, Lennon agreed to work as an undercover agent for $50 a month. He was told to get into the branch of Sinn Fein (the I.R. A.'s political arm) in Luton, a north London industrial suburb. More specifically, he was to do his drinking at a pub called The Foresters, where he met several Irish militants. "I was told to get in on everything they were up to," Lennon recalled. "I cannot remember the exact words [the detectives] used, but one of them said that I should egg them...
Cases of beer and coolers provide spectators with very-much missed grandstands, while pints of beer at a nearby pub provide participants the pain-killing elixir they need after eight hours of tourney play...
Blacks and Chicanos are also particularly prone to alcoholism, possibly for similar reasons. Among whites, the Irish Americans probably rank highest on the alcoholic scale. No one can explain precisely why, although Irish American social life has often centered around the pub or bar, and heavy drinking has been a culturally accepted means for temporarily getting away from problems. Jews, by contrast, have a relatively low incidence of alcoholism, though it is rising among them too. Jews have always frowned on public drunkenness as being a bad reflection on their entire culture, and drinking has not been the accepted...
...Hamilton was admitted to a hospital for shock, and she was still there one night last week when her husband headed nervously home from a local pub. Minutes later, John Hamilton was found dead a few yards from their doorstep, a single shot through the head...
...Hollywood, John is grooving an album to be released this week, called Mind Games, which includes such Lennon novelties as the three-second Nutopian International Album; Bring on the Lucie; and Aisumasen (I'm Sorry). Back in Manhattan, Yoko opened a gig in an Upper East Side pub, delivering a program of her own non-songs, which she delivered off-key. As a feminist, didn't she feel exploited appearing in shiny black knee boots and hot pants? Replied Yoko: "Feminism can be too militant and, anyway, jeans can be sexier than hot pants...