Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shapiro is eight years into a related addiction, Rotisserie League Baseball, invented by LIFE managing editor Dan Okrent and named for a defunct Manhattan restaurant. This week Shapiro joins 11 otherwise sane "club owners" at a tavern for a fantasy auction of every player in the American League. The pennant winner shows the best aggregate statistics at season's end. Shapiro hopes that reporting for this week's story will give him a scouting edge...
...Wisconsin players (including four starters) were discoverd drinking in a local tavern around three in the morning Tuesday night...
...tried to force her to marry the rich aristocratic fop Gamache over her sweet-heart, the young barber Basilio. Pursued by Lorenzo, Gamache and everyone else in the massive cast, Kitri and Basilio flee on a romantic adventure that takes them to a gypsy camp and then to a tavern and even transforms them momentarily into spirits in a dream. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza follow, determined to save their Lady Dulcinea...
...that the atmosphere is sexist, the women add; it just reminds them of their fathers. In addition, they feel oppressed by the Anglo-Saxon tone of the clubs, calling them "WASP theme parks." One female ex-member of the Tavern Club summed up the discontent by saying that although some men are "trying to change," most are unwilling to "change the things that most are most those white Anglo-Saxon males grew up with...
...days, Stubbs says, he uncovered more bottles than he had in four years of excavation in the center of the Yard. The number of bottles in the Yard, he says, exceeds what archaeologists find at typical tavern sites...