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...Landscape also achieves the Pinter effect: here an old married couple carry on a conversation on two completely different planes, he prating endlessly about his rather boring day at the pub, and the park, and the pond, and she luxuriating in the remembrance of a love affair. Pinter's language is brilliant, and sometimes broad. (When she finishes a private recollection of sex on the beach the day before, while he carries on about the weather, he asks "What did you think of that downfall yester...
...show that they were as capable of meting out kangaroo justice as the "official" I.R.A., the "provisionals" last week dragged a 20-year-old man from a pub, allegedly for pushing drugs, then tarred and feathered him and chained him to a park fence. They also accused an English ex-soldier of "interfering with women" and tarred him outside Belfast...
...stage is set by a German freighter that dumps arms into the stormy ocean. Enter handsome Tim O'Leary, the Commandant, with nine fine young men in oilslieks. O'Leary goes straight to the pub of Mr. Ryan, a trusted revolutionary, to ask for a dozen men to help collect cast-up munitions from the beach at daybreak. Trouble is, Mr. Ryan is an informer on the payroll of the aristocratic British major who is fucking around with Ryan's daughter...
...restaurant. Bradley joined two former airline executives in 1969 to open Victoria Station, an antique-encrusted dining room put together from seven old railroad cars in downtown San Francisco. The partners have grossed more than $1,000,000, and have started a chain by opening an English pub across town and a Victoria Station in Atlanta. Bradley's company has understandably become a lodestone for out-of-work brokers from around San Francisco. One of them has become a waiter...
...fact, it is a 5-by-8-ft. table covered with carefully scaled fields and forests, and populated by immaculately realistic toy soldiers. The only thing actually flowing is ale. The men are gathered, as is their monthly custom, in a private room over the Ordnance Arms, a pub in London's Southwark. The Society of Ancients is staging the twelfth battle of its miniaturized Wars of the Roses. But did the Battle of Pleshey actually occur? Not bloody likely...