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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...
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...
...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...