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August for baseball fans is usually a month to contemplate home runs, pennant fever and World Series possibilities. The game's exotica, like base-stealing records, are condemned to wistful tavern afternoons. There, oldtimers can sip a brew or two and contemplate Ty Cobb's 96 high-spike steals in 1915, Maury Wills' well-plotted 104 in '62, and Lou Brock's legendary 118 eight years...
Lieut. Richard Sandberg, 45, was put in charge of the probe, and with Chandler staked out a South Side tavern called the count, the cops cut deals on Wednesday nights. From their unmarked brown van, the investigators watched police drug sale after police drug sale and plenty of sampling. "There they were, not 10 ft. away," recalls Sandberg, still incredulous, "just dipping into the vial and snorting away." Brazen, but not incriminating enough. Sandberg insisted on getting tape recordings of the transactions...
...young father he takes his son, then eight or nine, to a crossroads tavern after a morning foray against the smallmouth bass of Wisconsin. The kid stuffs his face and observes: "Gee, Dad, this is the life, isn't it? Fishing and eating in saloons." A quarter of a century later he takes another tyke fishing, this time on Martha's Vineyard. "Grandpa," the boy asks, "did you grow old or were you made old?" These volumes provide the answer. He grew old gracefully and, like every other superstar, made everyone who watched him feel young...
...great artistic prototypes, Rome, which supplied models both antique and modern. The chief modern one was Caravaggio, who had died on a malarial Mediterranean beach at the start of the 17th century and left behind him a vast legacy of influence all over Europe. To paint commonplace models in tavern settings or caves of gloom, to infuse biblical subjects with an exacting realism and directness, to drive the mincing preciosity of late mannerism out of art-such were the aims of French Caravaggisti like Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632), whose Fortune Teller raises narrative to a pitch of ironic theater...
...belly is full of sack, a braggart, a liar, a thief, a cynic and a coward, but with all that an irresistibly endearing tub of bubbling jollity. Early on, Falstaff (Joss Ackland) chides the heir apparent Prince Hal (Gerard Murphy), who has made the Boar's Head Tavern his home away from the castle, for leading him into evil ways...