Word: taverner
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...down in a land storytellers speak of, A slothful tavern, legends, prayers, The feeble shade of listlessly murmuring palm trees...
...passes on to a series of horrified clerks his digestive uproars, his sexual fantasies about his pubescent niece and his rages at his cook Macbeth ("Macbeth has murdered sleep, and my digestion"). Falstaff acknowledges that there was a report of his death at the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap some years earlier but explains it as a harmless charade, staged with Mistress Quickly's help, to cool the passions of his creditors...
This elected prankster is not unique in the city. School Committeewoman Elvira "Pixie" Palladino ("She's got balls," Dapper says) achieved her notoriety by slugging Ted Kennedy at an anti-busing protest rally. There are plenty of clowns at places like Whitey McGrail's and Kelly's Tavern who help make the beers go down more pleasantly. By a series of accidents, the media and voters have launched O'Neil into perpetual orbit. A politician who cannot mobilize support, cultivate influence or avoid social solecisms, he was spawned by the social, political and economic problems that trouble the frightened white...
LeRoy has transformed the seedy old building into a series of dining rooms that make the Tavern at once a country place in the city and a city place in the country. The Elm Rooms (so called for the tree that grows through them) are country-pub elegant, paneled in wormy chestnut and hung with copper artifacts and sculptures. The most sumptuous salon, the glass-enclosed Crystal Room, shimmers in pastel pinks, greens and yellows, sun-dappled by day, glimmering by night under Waterford and Baccarat chandeliers. Everything, from the silk-screened tablecloths to the neo-Tiffany lamps, was designed...
Sensual Fantasy. The Tavern's first-night gala was more like an operetta than a restaurant opening, with five bands, fiddlers and jugglers introducing each of nine courses, and a wild array of plumage on all the Beautiful People that was a direct result of their host's request that they wear "garden formal." What is garden formal? LeRoy answered his question by wearing a gold-spangled suit with spangled blue-gold rep tie and rhinestone-studded glasses that made him resemble a well-padded Elton John...