Word: saloon
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This is Le Crazy Horse Saloon, a Paris landmark now celebrating its tenth anniversary as a strip joint. The place nightly draws 250 eager customers-better than half of them foreigners-who with mixed emotions gradually discover that they have come to a place that refuses to take seriously either sex, itself, or its customers. Everything about the place is parody except the prices: the first drink costs $7, the second...
...plays the same outwardly embittered and egocentric but inwardly sympathetic hero in both, and both plots concentrate on the efforts of the other characters to enlist his desperately needed "hard resourcefulness" on the side of the anti-Nazi underground. The center of the action in both movies is a saloon that employs a wise and loyal piano player and a patriotic, emotional bartender. Both films include a hated Nazi (or Vichy) officer, an admired underground leader and his beautiful wife who need Bogart's help, a vicious cat-and-mouse police interrogation scene, and a phone call at gunpoint...
...Susan Sontag and the derivation of the word Camp [Dec. 17], how the reference to the Aussie term "low saloon" was dug up is beyond me. Camp may be purely New York slang, argot. I first ran across it in the early '30s. At that time, groups of homosexuals lived together in apartments they rented en masse. The apartments were called "camps," and by extension the residents thereof were also called camps-I don't know why not campers, but they weren't. "He's a camp," was not an uncommon phrase...
...Originally derived from an Australian term for "a low saloon...
...Miller. Across the lawn to his right was the old stucco building that for years had housed the family store. These days, the Goldwaters' Prescott store occupies a more modern structure nearby. Off to Goldwater's left was "Whisky Row," dominated by the historic Palace Saloon, which still does a thriving business. Straight ahead was a bronze equestrian statue of "Bucky" O'Neill, a onetime Yavapai County sheriff who served as one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough-riders. Barry is fond of saying that Bucky was the first American to fall in the charge...