Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last night of the convention season was nothing less than spectacular. Every lighting lackey and cable layer was invited to swanky Tavern-on-the-Green in New York's Central Park to dance and dine the night away with the top brass. With enough liquor to anesthetize a Russian army and with every kind of food known to man, we all soon got into the spirit. Beefy cameramen jostled the likes of Lesley Stahl at the crepe and caviar table, and pool secretaries chatted with producers...
After his first night at home, above his family's tavern in Olyphant (pop. 5,138), Michael Metrinko looked out the window at the gently falling snow. "I knew at that moment that at last it was over," he says. "There I was, standing in the bedroom of my boyhood. Nobody was threatening me. No one was calling for my death. I was home...
...social center of the pre-Revolutionary days" in spite, or perhaps because, of "two life-sized wooden figures of Indians in paint and feathers and armed with bow and arrows (who) sentineled the principal entrance to the grounds." Ostentation was the order of the day in certain circles--when tavern-owner Andrew Belcher died in 1717, his estate bore the cost of 96 pairs of kid gloves and 50 suits of mourning made expressly for the funeral. And during the Revolutionary War, a Tory German matron threw a birthday part in honor of George III. Cantabrigians could hardly keep their...
...thing hasn't changed--for a relatively small city, Cambridge has an unusually strong record of producing important people, inventions and ideas. Always an intellectual and ethnic mecca, Cambridge has brought the United States everything from the porterhouse steak (served in the 19th century at Porter's Tavern) to the sewing machine to frozen yogurt. Eliot has compiled an unofficial list of "Cambridge firsts...
Andrew Belcher opens the Blue Anchor Tavern...