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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...
...Government plans a new annex; a Boston development concern plans to replace the Harvard Motor Lodge with an office building; and local developer Louis DiGiovanni plans a similar structure for Mt. Auburn St., on the former site of the Picadilly Filly bar, the Blue Parrot and the Ha'penny Pub...
...principals -- Terrorist Nolan, Schoolteacher Hugh MacMahon and Politician Robert Delaney -- are all veterans of Clonbrony who pursue different paths to freedom from British rule. Flanagan follows the twists and turns from Kilpeder and Dublin to London and New York City. His settings, from Ardmor Castle to the local pub, are natural and unforced; the language of his characters hints at hidden poetry without breaking into showy lyricism or stage Irish: "Beyond the streaky window, the land opened out before us -- the wide, green fields of the midlands, the hills of Munster, a flashing glimpse of ruined keep, a manor house...
Cronin, who enjoys reporting on life-styles, is a firm believer in experiencing the style of those lives. For a 1983 look at the youthful counterculture tribes of Britain, she pub-crawled along the King's Road with punks and piggybacked a 110-m.p.h. ride near Westminster Bridge on a biker's Harley. In the course of examining the controversial practice of alternative medicine in Britain, Cronin endured a session of vigorous foot massage by a reflexologist, who pronounced her in excellent health. Recalls Cronin: "I awoke the next day with a vastly swollen cheek, which was diagnosed...