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Nemorino loves Adina, hotel owner and belle of a small town in the West. The West of what is never specified, and the saloon's stained-glass windows, the standard Italian names, clash oddly with the smattering of tagged-on Harvard jokes to keep the setting questionable. Adina shuns Nemorino's attentions and smiles instead on Sergeant Belcore, a grimacing, pillow-stuffed dandy who has just marched into town and showered her with his military...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Under the Chandeliers | 3/12/1981 | See Source »

...capital's most popular discos plans to open a C & W establishment in Georgetown. The venture will be aimed at what O'Harro calls "Government superchic, not rednecks." While conservative Washingtonians are more attuned to Blue Moon than bluegrass, O'Harro is confident that his Saddletramp saloon will be a boomer. As Ronald Reagan's rancheros take over the town, western chic may be a capital gain. -By Michael Demarest

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: C & W Nightclubs: Riding High | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...tossing a surprise birthday party for my blue-eyed cowboy." Cary Grant, the Fred Astaires, the Gregory Pecks, Spiro Agnew, the Johnny Carsons and 200 others were on hand to greet the guest of honor at his own spread in Rancho Mirage, Calif., under a tent rigged with saloon-style bars, cacti, a bandstand and spittoons. Old Blue Eyes was delighted: "I'm gushing with happiness," said he. Guess when a man turns 65, it's time to hoe down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 29, 1980 | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...lets it all accumulate. He records demythologized Alaska more obnoxious and squalid than it is majestic and forbidding. Along with the peaks, glaciers, freedom and big bucks, he gives us the alcoholic cabin fever of the Arctic winter, the grimy linoleum floors of numberless joints like the Northern Saloon in Nome where half the boozers sling .357 Magnums as equipment for late night poker, and the glazy-eyed dissolution of the Eskimos who can only watch the white conquest from the alleys while hanging around getting tight and quietly hysterical...

Author: By Francis MARK Muro, | Title: The Ragged Edge | 11/7/1980 | See Source »

Amid the hanging plants of Andrea's, a campus saloon, you will see them on the right side of Harvard Stadium today--the Wine and Cheese and 'Ludes set. The two most revealing visits you can make at Brown are (1.) to the $3.95-burger-75-cents-extra-with-cheese eaterie, The Gate, where diners prefer to view each other rather than the food, and, (2.) to the University Book Store, an establishment the size of most shoe repair stores...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: On Brown and Buckley: College and Quarterback Come Back | 11/1/1980 | See Source »

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