Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ITHACA, N.Y.--Games-R-Fun is a pin ball arcade down the hill from the Royal Palm Tavern on College Street. There, before three Cornell students and a Black man in an overcoat, Mike Bass and I played the Harvard-Cornell game last night...
...says, "anyone who has had one psychology course or one sociology course in college." That is not, he insists, the often charged but never admitted bias against intelligent jurors. Kunkle's reasoning: "The jury brings in common sense, a knowledge of everyday life. Say the case involves a tavern fight. Is someone with a Ph.D. in English literature really going to be helpful in deciding the issues...
...yarn, set in the misty, myth-ridden hills and bogs of County Donegal, northwest Ireland. Once his victim is buried deep in the peat, Roarty begins to receive demanding notes from "Bogmailer."The mystery meanders with Irish indirection to a surprising last-minute plot twist, employing a cast of tavern regulars that Flann O'Brien or Dylan Thomas would have stood to a round...
Graeme Campbell rants nicely as the bragging toper Pistol, whose tavern cronies Bardolph and Nym are sharply limned by Raymond Skipp and Norman Allen. (These two double as the soldiers who converse with the disguised king in a night scene far too brightly lit by Marc B. Weiss.) Aideen O'Kelly is a passable Mistress Quickly and a better Queen of France...
...Yorkais say, for le nitty-gritty. Rumor has it that the celebrated Algonquin serves bad food. "This information is absolutely erroneous. In fact, it is very bad." At Tavern on the Green, they serve a banana cheesecake "that would have smothered Desdemona faster than her pillow." At the "21" Club, which is not a club at all but a place to be seen, the cuisine is "irregular: one time it's bad, another time it's worse." At P.J. Clarke's, they serve un hamburger that is "both cooked to death and cold and even an English...