Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the reputation of the Quad saloon spread. Performances by popular local bands and the improvisational group "On Thin Ice" packed the basement club wall-to-wall. The intimate nightclub for couples soon turned into what vice president Diane M. Paulus '88 termed "an organized party." Some nights the crowd numbered in the hundreds, and lines formed around Cabot House...
...pretty. While postcard-stills of the sleeping town before sunrise frequently interrupt the screen, the camera focuses for the most part on relentlessly exposing the routine exhaustion of life in the pits: from the hard day's labor in the mines to the hardluck boozers in the C & W saloon. The tight angles force the audience into contact, and often an unsettling intimacy, with the heavy mundaneness of lower middle class life. One has scenes of a locker room echoing with weeping after lay-off notices, the crew trading sandwiches on their lunchbreak, a monstrous dumptruck heaving its load...
...storm was capricious. At John's Bar & Grill in Evans City, 23 miles north of Pittsburgh, about 70 horrified customers hit the floor when a twister hovered overhead. The tornado razed surrounding buildings but spared the saloon...
Lonesome Dove, Texas, is a one-tart town and so quiet you can hear the lady's bedsprings a block away. For those with a thirst, there is the Dry Bean saloon, where customers pass time whittling the edges off the tables. It is the late 19th century. Pyramids of buffalo bones rise on the prairie, the red man is down to his last can of war paint, and a couple of old Texas Rangers have seen the future, and it works without them...
Calls for spirits are the lowest ever at the superdeluxe Ma Maison restaurant in Los Angeles; wine accounts for 80% of sales. Patrons of New York City's most famous saloon, the "21" Club, are rattling the aged bar with their orders for such low-proof and nostalgic concoctions as kir royale--champagne sweetened with a spoonful of French black-currant liqueur. At Elaine's restaurant, an uptown Manhattan hangout favored by the likes of Woody Allen and Michael Caine, the wee-hours drinkers have evaporated; the bar empties "early," around 1 a.m. Commuters on the Long Island Rail Road...