Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...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...
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...
...black federal soldiers and the townspeople, many of them ex-Confederates, lived in a certain mutual contempt. After a drunken sheepman blew out an unarmed trooper's brains in a saloon one night in 1881, the black soldiers came raging across the river into town and posted a notice: "If we do not receive justice and fair play, which we must have, some one will suffer-if not the guilty, the innocent. It has gone far enough. Justice or death." It was a moment of brave anger in the 19th century, but it passed; the white sheepman was acquitted...
...sense of how Carter's men were faring against their foe from Massachusetts. By 9 p.m. or so, he would file for the Globe's first edition, then do some additional reporting and update his stories if necessary. After that it was off to a saloon on 33rd Street for some Jack Daniel's on the rocks...