Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Come Friday nights, the boisterous gang congregates at the neighboring bars, the Hawaiian, the Whistle Stop or the Red Lion (a pseudo pub), to swap leg- pulling tales and practice one-upmanship by inventing sidesplitter headlines. Billy Burt, editor of the Examiner, proffers the classic example of HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR as the quintessence of a tabloid art form. Balfour opts for convolution: THE TOASTER POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL or, better, THE DOG THAT SHOT ITS OWNER. All voice serious concern that unimaginative headlines -- GIRL, 11, BECOMES GRANDMOTHER -- are replacing zany eye-catchers -- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS USED MAP PREPARED...
...meet Bill Lee when I was eleven years old. He was my hero even then. My father and I sat next to him in a local pub, watching him swill beer and listening to him talk about Eastern mysticism and the concept of infinity. No doubt my admiration for such an odd figure was disturbing to my parents. Lee had admitted to being a frequent user of marijuana, and to avoid penalty from the Baseball Commission for smoking it, he fabricated a story of sprinkling pot on his organic buckwheat pancakes. The THC, he claimed, would be activated...
GAPSC this year also started a weekly "happy-hour exchange" between the graduate schools. Each week, the happy hour is held at a different graduate school's student pub and the council posters for the event at every graduate school. Since its inception in early October, the program has met with success, say coordinators of the project. The happy hours have also encouraged graduate students to visit other schools' pubs informally, council members...
Worst Press Box: Yale. It looks like a pub out of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." The stools are squeaky, the space is small and you spend the whole night hoping no one will steal your notes...
When Fantine dies, Valjean comes to the aid of her daughter, Cosette. He finds that the Thenardiers, the couple who take care of the young Cosette (Christa Larson), are nothing but thieving, conniving pub owners who have worked the child like a slave while charging her mother large sums of money. Thenardier (Tom Robbins) and his wife (Victoria Clark) are the show's clowns, and the audience revels in their provincial language and drunken vulgarity...