Word: taverne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SENTENCED. John Cordeiro, 24; Victor Raposo, 23; and Daniel Silva, 27; Portuguese immigrant laborers who were convicted in a nationally televised trial of gang raping a woman in a neighborhood tavern; each to nine to twelve years in prison; in Fall River, Mass. A fourth defendant, Joseph Vieira, 28, received six to eight years on the same aggravated rape charge...
...slight, dark-haired woman, wearing a brick-red dress, spoke in the broad, flat tones of southeastern Massachusetts, recounting with almost clinical detachment her recollections of being gang-raped on a tavern pool table in New Bedford a year earlier. Her testimony last week came on the second day in the trial of her six accused attackers, all charged with aggravated rape, a crime that carries a possible life sentence. It was the first time the 22-year-old woman, whose identity has been protected at the urging of Superior Court Judge William G. Young, had spoken in public about...
...young woman testified that she had spent much of last March 6 celebrating her older daughter's third birthday, leaving home shortly after 9 p.m. to buy a pack of cigarettes. Finding two stores closed, she headed for Big Dan's Tavern, a neighborhood drinking joint in New Bedford's North End that has since gone out of business. Big Dan's had a reputation for attracting rowdies. After buying her cigarettes, she struck up a conversation over a drink with the only other woman in the bar. That woman then left, said the victim...
...waved to Charles Coburn as he emerged from the Players, and he waved back. The park's most mentioned artist-in-residence was William Sydney Porter, known as O. Henry, who lived on Irving Place and used to drink at Healy's Cafe, now Pete's Tavern, and still on 18th Street. One of the rare continuing neighborhood disputes concerns O. Henry. The people at Pete's claim that he wrote The Gift of the Magi in a booth there. A plaque at Sal Anthony's, a restaurant on the site of O. Henry...
...billed by Promoter Don King as "a family affair," but the 500 reporters and photographers jammed together last week at New York City's Tavern on the Green were treated more like very distant relatives. Superstar Michael Jackson, 25, was announcing plans for a reunion album and a 40-city tour, starting in May, with his singing siblings. Sporting flashy threads and flashing shades, Michael and his five brothers-Jackie, 22, Jermaine, 28, Marlon, 26, Randy, 21, and Tito, 30-obligingly posed for the press but left the talking to King, who predicted that the act would...