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...years, the barmaid served drinks in a Delaware pub, putting away her tips. The trucker repaved asphalt highways in New Jersey. Not exactly the easiest ways to cover the expenses of a world-class figure-skating pair, but for Calla Urbanski (the waitress) and Rocky Marval (the trucker), those jobs paved the path to Albertville. Urbanski, 30, and Marval, 26, had both skated competitively for a decade without ever notching a major victory. Two years ago, they dropped longtime partners and teamed up with each other for one last shot at the Olympics. It clicked: their erratic skating began rising...
Like this sainted idiot, Morrison seems to be sustained by some spiritual essence. He also shares with the idiot a contempt for catering to anyone, a disdain for superficial cool. Morrison, 46, looks like a cross between a puff adder and a pub keeper, and will never seem beguiling in a video. As he sings about his boyhood, weaving references to Sidney Bechet and Hank Williams into a tune that draws on the hymn Just a Closer Walk with Thee, it's obvious he is only trying to keep a clear through-line to living memory...
Friday (in Pub): Memphis Rockabilly Band...
Saturday (in Pub): Karaoke...
...once the passion of this public moment subsides. But for women with less of a pulpit, the results of coming forward can be devastating. Simone Lochlear, a 28-year-old restaurant manager in the South, filed a sexual-harassment suit against the manager of Washington's Dubliner Restaurant and Pub, who she alleged twice asked her to perform oral sex in front of another employee. After she filed a claim at the District of Columbia's human-rights office, she says, the manager had a private detective follow her and take notes on how she worked. She was fired...