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Grendel's (89 Winthrop St.). Not many bars can brag about being opened by the United States Supreme Court but Grendel's Bar--located right below the restaurant with the same name--is one which can. A landmark court decision last fall struck down a time-worn Massachusetts law allowing churches to veto liquor license applications for establishments within 500 feet of their property. Grendel's Bar is the newest in the Square, and is fast developing a regular clientele. It is also the only bar which allows customers to select their choice of record and then plays it from...
...only represent one of you." Bob quickly develops the stereotypical father's pride for his son. Sheila sees herself as the old-fashioned wife unprepared for the infidelities of a modern marriage but too much in love with her husband to leave him. Their attitudes are too time-worn to give them any reality as characters...
...fair to say that the former Ambassador to India and past president of the American Economic Association is now riding on the image and ideas which he generated during that time period. His current essays in economic and political persuasion, at least those in his most recent work, The Voice of the Poor, are as always smooth reading, but they are time-worn and unpersuasive...
...this time-worn situation Stoppard adds a hilarious and original twist: the cast includes a pair of critics, who watch the action with the rest of the audience. Their pre-curtain conversation begins the play and, as the evening progresses, they gradually get involved in the drama on stage, more so than reviewers generally...
President Reagan's economic retaliation against the Soviet Union for its role in the Polish crisis is raising anew some time-worn questions. Do such sanctions work? Are they at best only symbolic? Are they perhaps misguided missiles that ultimately inflict more damage on the country imposing them than on the target nation...