Word: taverne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a dagger in the groin during a ball game in Rome in 1606, and wounded several others, including a guard at Castel Sant'Angelo and a waiter whose face he cut open in a squabble about artichokes. He was sued for libel in Rome and mutilated in a tavern brawl in Naples. He was saturnine, coarse and queer. He thrashed about in the etiquette of early seicento cultivation like a shark in a net. So where is the mini-series? When will some art-collecting shlockmeister of Beverly Hills produce The Shadows and the Sodomy, the 1980s' answer...
...Knopf; 107 pages; $25). They embellish quilts and samplers, weather vanes and water jars, chests, chairs, tavern signs and tombstones. Authors Cynthia V.A. Schaffner and Susan Klein, both of New York City's Museum of American Folk Art, celebrate the heart's presence in American folk decoration. The image pervaded the culture of the young country and on the evidence of this book reached its zenith among the Pennsylvania Germans. The new immigrants painted their bright, elaborate designs on pottery and furniture, inked them on love letters, and even incorporated them into birth certificates. Amid these ebullient displays...
Celebrity Saloon. If things go as Walter Mondale hopes on nominating night, he will head for his favorite watering hole in San Francisco, the Washington Square Bar and Grill in North Beach. Since it opened a decade ago on the site of a former tavern, the Square has become the saloon of choice for San Francisco politicos, media types, sports figures and an assortment of others who can either shout above the din or do not mind it. Walter A. Haas Jr., executive committee chairman of Levi Strauss & Co., celebrated his 65th birthday during a surprise party at the Square...
Manhattan, 1921. A lovely, dark-haired girl, just approaching her teens, dances alone to the torpid ecstasy of a phonograph record in the back room of a Lower East Side tavern. Through a crack in the wall, a boy about the same age watches, transfixed. The dance over, Deborah (Jennifer Connelly) turns her back to the boy and slips out of her white chiffon dress, displaying herself in a vision that the young Noodles Aaronson will carry throughout his long, violent life. This is the first scene of the Ladd Co.'s Once upon a Time in America...
Sitting in his office surrounded by pictures of the native singers and a guale, a lute. Lord explains how the recordings were made. "We would go to a village, find the coffeehouse or tavern and ask the tavern-keeper who sings there," Lord recalls. "We would talk with the singers and gradually introduce the recording equipment," he adds...