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...continues to drink as it always has. Marshall Lyons, 31, a Berkeley, Calif., tree surgeon, even gives nostalgic martini (stir, don't shake) parties, complete with Peggy Lee music, because, he says, "martinis have the aesthetic of cold steel. They're like contemporary graphics." Dudley's, a workingman's tavern in Atlanta, has not slacked off selling ten kegs of beer a week as it has for years. "We're a neighborhood place," says Manager Tas Cofer. "We get workers from GM, construction men, manual laborers. They know everybody, and they say, 'I'm going to party with those guys...
...people saying that a fleshy, overbearing auto executive should be President of the U.S.? What accounts for the rampant Iacoccamania? There are many reasons, if no pat explanation. He is powerful, a VIP, yet his bullish candor reminds people of a pal at the local tavern who calls 'em as he sees 'em. He is feisty and anti-Establishment, but his patriotism makes that posture seem safe and red-blooded. Partly, his popularity is a function of the times: two-fisted capitalism is in vogue. After a long period of feeling cranky and skeptical, the country seems in the mood...
...Germany, myth and reality intertwine: the real Faust was Luther's contemporary, and Goethe set one of his play's scenes in the Auerbachs Keller in Leipzig. Today the ancient tavern is guarded by statues of Faust and Mephisto, and the latter is seen casting a spell over a group of Leipzigers. "Loose the bonds of illusion from their eyes!" Mephisto says as he releases them. "Remember how the devil joked." They are words too often unheeded, as modern history testifies...
...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...