Word: taverner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the parlor." Architects, historical societies and garden clubs bombarded state and federal officials with indignant letters. If the prison were built, said one, it would be "an affront to the past and an insult to the future." The area around such important houses as Boswell's Tavern, a supposed haunt of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Patrick Henry, required protection and preservation...
...fascination, he is a brute with enough temper to kill. With the hauntingly Iberian sets by Czech Designer Josef Svoboda, one can believe that Seville is steaming hot (it literally is: 280,000 watts of light beam down on the cast from behind the proscenium), that Pastia's tavern is a fun place to go, that the mountain pass is desolate enough to make people fall out of love, as Carmen and Jose do. One can, in fact, begin to believe again in opera itself...
...running for mayor. One hopeful, Republican Matthew Nilsen, was indicted by a county grand jury on nine counts of threatening to kill or atrociously assault two men who apparently owed him $65,000. A second, Democrat Michael DeMartino, was charged with trying to extort $3,000 from a tavern owner by misusing his authority as a member of the city's alcoholic beverage control board. Last week it was revealed that the administration of a third candidate, Incumbent Mayor Thomas G. Dunn, a Democrat, is under investigation by the jury for possible corruption. The fourth? He is Anthony Carbone...
...cool toward the press as he is toward his opponents, and Hillenbrand found that "getting him to talk was a complicated task calling for the patience of a snake tamer." They first met in Denver last July. In New York City, the two drank beer in an East Side tavern, then shared a few games of chess. "He showed no pity," says Hillenbrand. "He would come crashing down the board, picking off my pieces with cries of 'Crunch...
Lost Lustre. The decline began late last year when FBI investigators discovered that some Chicago policemen were involved in a scheme to shake down tavern owners in the city's North West Side Austin police district. Nine policemen -including two lieutenants and a sergeant-and two former policemen were indicted. Four have been convicted. Fifteen additional policemen were suspended by Conlisk after they refused to talk to the grand jury about the shakedown operation. The scheme may have spread to other areas of the city; one high-ranking policeman quit his job when federal probers started looking into possible...