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...hard put to find a place that will see their bout to its finale--most of the bars close at 1 a.m. The Blue Parrot (123 Mt. Auburn St.) and The Idler (right underneath it) are for intimates or loners who like to do their boozing in quiet. Their sangria goes down as smoothly as lemonade and mellows your insides with a particularly warm high. Cronin's (114 Mt. Auburn St.) is a traditional Harvard beer guzzling haunt, but it should be avoided on principle--a waitresses' union protested the restaurant's miserable working conditions for who knows how long...
...wine list is modest but sufficient: the carafes of house wine--red, white, rose--cost $1.35, while sangria sells for $1.50. All are high quality...
...rather get drunk, the Square lets you do it either in quiet or in noisy surroundings. A nice place to get quietly bombed is the Blue Parrot (123 Mt. Auburn St.). The sangria is so good and refreshing you can drink it like water and the music is softly calming (although canned). A little louder is the Casablanca (40 Brattle St.), and a little hokier the Toga Lounge (1274 Mass Ave), but both can get you smashed without spending a fortune. Cronin's (114 Mt. Auburn St.), a traditional Harvard beer-drinking establishment, should be avoided because of the owner...
When Hugh Hefner is the social draw in Hollywood, it is obvious that there have been great changes in lotus land. From his 30-room mansion, New Arrival Hefner stages Sunday barbecues replete with Playboy bunnies, while Hollywood oldtimers seem to be making do with hot dogs and sangria. Some of the established hostesses, Roz Russell, Denise Minnelli, Mrs. Gregory Peck, still stage conspicuously sumptuous affairs now and again. But in the new Hollywood such lavishness seems almost ostentatiously out of date...
...wine aficionados have an answer for such snobbery: flavored wines have been around for a long time. Spaniards favor sangria, made of red wine and fruit juices; French and Italian sweet vermouths are simply flavored wines; Greeks add resin to wine to produce retsina. Indeed, products like Thunderbird (a citrus-flavored wine that is 18% alcohol) have been on U.S. shelves for more than a decade. These cheap, more potent brands should continue to sell, mostly to the Skid Row set, despite the pop-wine invasion. What would a serious wino want, after all, with a low-alcohol tipple called...