Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...park for adults, run by computer technicians and scientists, where the customers pay plenty to live out their elaborate, generally adolescent fantasies. The hero (Richard Benjamin) dresses up as a cowboy and gets to spend a week in a replica of a Western town, where he becomes involved in saloon brawls, witnesses bank robberies, goes upstairs with the ladies who hang around the saloon, and gets stalked by a gunslinger in black...
What could eventually turn the South against Nixon is that he has not acted with the personal honor that the region has always valued. It is the gut that may react first, as it did with the patrons in the saloon owned by Manuel Maloof, a power in the Democratic Party in De Kalb County, Ga. Maloof was bartending when the news of the missing tapes was reported on TV. "You wouldn't believe the look on their faces," he recalls. "They can't believe this guy. I'm honestly afraid he might force a revolt...
...Most people don't know where the Harvard library is. Most people don't know where the Twenty-One Club is in New York. Most people don't know anything. They know the television, they know the neighborhood saloon, they know the job they have to go to, and they know that they don't get along with their wives and yet they're stuck with them because they have four kids and a home...
Weaned in a seedy Baltimore saloon and shunted off to a Catholic trade school for the underprivileged by his bartender father, Ruth was only 19 when he became a pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles in the International League and the legal ward of the Oriole manager. In 1915, one season later, he moved up to the majors and won 18 games as a lanky lefthander for the Boston Red Sox. After that he put together winning seasons of 23 and 24 games each, plus victories in three World Series starts, before he changed from pitching to full-time batting...
Chronologically, the images stretch from the first page of the first story in the first issue-a Saturday night in Fort Peck, Mont., in 1936, where WPA workers are whooping it up at a local saloon -to a recent moment when Dick Cavett made fun of TV talk shows by interviewing Louis, his own poodle. The book embraces one Depression, five wars, five Presidents, and that picture of Rita Hayworth in a black-bodiced, white satin nightgown. Fiorello La Guardia appears, blowing smoke rings with bemused insouciance. So does Nikita Khrushchev, shaking his fist in the face...