Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That rape, and especially gang rape, is a crime of terrifying seriousness need hardly be repeated. But the particularly beings and peculiar nature of this rape merits special attention. This rape has an audience. In fact, there were at least a dozen men in Big Dan's Tavern that night who watched and cheered as the victim suffered. Not one man, not even the bartender, moved to stop the rapists. No one, to what must have been a gruesome spectacle is more than reprehensible--it is mind-boggling...
Britain's Margaret Thatcher could summon up the image of 1769, when the Virginia assembly, protesting the British Revenue Act, was dissolved by Governor Botetourt. In defiance, the assemblymen moved up Williamsburg's Duke of Gloucester Street to the Raleigh Tavern, where next day they reconvened in the Apollo Room and drew up a boycott of British goods. It was a warning that the British ignored, to their regret...
...jobs being created in the U.S. hold little appeal for former assembly-line workers. According to the Government, the U.S. added 1.6 million restaurant and tavern jobs between 1973 and 1980, more than the current total in the steel (327,000) and auto (666,000) industries. During the 1980s, more new secretaries (700,000), nurse's aides and orderlies (508,000), janitors (501,000) and salesclerks (479,000) are expected to be hired than workers in any other job categories...
That rape, and especially gang rape, is a crime of terrifying seriousness need hardly be repeated. But the particularly heinous and peculiar nature of this rape merits special attention. This rape had an audience. In fact, there were at least a dozen men in Big Dan's Tavern that night who watched and cheered as the victim suffered. Not one man, not even the bartender, moved to stop the rapists. No one called the police. Their reaction, or rather lack of one, to what must have been a gruesome spectacle is more than reprehensible it is mind-boggling...
Linda Griffiths as Lianna does the lonely and pathetic look so well that we don't believe she could make such a radical change without a second thought. One expects, even wants, to see some moments of remorse or soul-searching. Lianna feels uncomfortable in the "My Way Tavern," a lesbian bar, for only a few minutes--soon she is dancing naturally, though not well, with the other women. In the bar she notices, sure enough, a member of the PTA; thus, director John Sayles points out unoriginally that anyone...