Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is all to say that such behavior is intolerable," noted John L. Lester '99, concluding a recent speech at the Bow and Arrow Pub. "My new job, as an overpaid yet under-worked capitalist, allows me to transport my ass to far-away destinations at my whim...
...cast makes it crackle. Ciaran Hinds (the only London holdover) smartly navigates Larry's sometimes improbable swings of temperament; Rupert Graves is pub-crawlingly plausible as Dan; and Anna Friel, as the waifish Alice, is the most appealing new face on Broadway this season. Richardson invests Anna's elegant exterior with shadows of vulnerability, delivers gag lines with dry panache and raises the electricity level just by striding onstage. And yet, amazingly, her star wattage never outshines the ensemble. Now that's a career move...
...Francis Crick walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, and, as James Watson later recalled, announced that "we had found the secret of life." Actually, they had. That morning, Watson and Crick had figured out the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, DNA. And that structure--a "double helix" that can "unzip" to make copies of itself--confirmed suspicions that DNA carries life's hereditary information...
...while Europeans, especially the youth, flock to crowded McDonald's for the phony Le Big Mac and outrageously overpriced American soft drinks. As far as we are concerned, River folk should indulge their xenophobia at the over-commercialized Friday's Americana Bar and leave us to enjoy traditional European pub life at Christopher's and Cambridge Common...
...Holborn area, where regular drum and bass nights create a different beat. Superstars, not mortals, hit super-fashionable Annabelle's. London Walks, an old-line organizer of informative strolls through the city led by actor types, has expanded beyond its daytime itineraries to run night sojourns along venerable pub routes, leaving its customers to stumble home several hours and drinks later. For the brave, London Walks stages nighttime treks through the East End haunts of Jack the Ripper, the mysterious Victorian who neatly slitted the throats of ladies of the night but eluded capture...