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This is Hogarth's famous painting of a kind of political dinner at a tavern, but this is what the coffee shops looked like back then.
Was the nut bar connected with the ex husband, somebody in the tavern or was it the guy (person) that she cut off?
The story involves him and another wealthy visitor of a countryside tavern challenging a brutal young journalist to accept a morbid wager.
The only problem in this enjoyable, if silly film is some truly horrible acting from Ralph Bates and the gay caricature in the tavern.
Josh Lucas - husband number one - lives in the requisite trailer and chugs beer at the local tavern.
If that were not bad enough, the action opens with a few old tars telling yarns in a tavern.
As another poster mentioned, it's unconvincingly telescoped -- does all the action take place within a year, with the tavern trying so many formats and suffering so many twists of fate?
all i can say is i fully expected the tavern wench/lady pirate to start removing all her clothes at every turn, as i have seen this caliber of acting before... in another genre.
Meanwhile after having a few drinks at the local tavern Elaine gets into car to leave.
The nice-looking widescreen DVD that I just watched, from the fine folks at Image, also contains the racier "Continental" version of "The Flesh and the Fiends," which adds little more than a few topless tavern floozies and a slightly more explicit hanging sequence; not much of an improvement.
He would risk anything just to enter a tavern in his own country!"
They sat down in the low-ceilinged room of a tavern, at whose door hung black nets.
She had any number of purchases to make in the town, and declared that she absolutely must dine in a tavern; in spite of anything her husband might say or do, she clung to her idea.
The children were in ecstasies at the mere word tavern, which modern prudery finds such pleasure in pronouncing.
Never can vanity, at grips with all the nastiest and shabbiest elements of a petty love of money, have plunged a man in a more wretched state than that in which M. de Renal found himself, at the moment of his entering the tavern.
Whatever progress piety and gravity may make, there will always be in France a literature of the tavern.
Here--it's the number of a room--in a tavern, you know!""Oh, that's the trick!
He found that in the best tavern, No. 2 had long been occupied by a young lawyer, and was still so occupied.
The back door of that No. 2 is the door that comes out into that little close alley between the tavern and the old rattle trap of a brick store.
They hung about the neighborhood of the tavern until after nine, one watching the alley at a distance and the other the tavern door.
Nobody entered the alley or left it; nobody resembling the Spaniard entered or left the tavern door.
An hour before midnight the tavern closed up and its lights (the only ones thereabouts) were put out.
Tom got his lantern, lit it in the hogshead, wrapped it closely in the towel, and the two adventurers crept in the gloom toward the tavern.
I'll ha'nt that tavern every night for a year!
Eleven o'clock came, and the tavern lights were put out; darkness everywhere, now.
Huck was irritated to think he had been such a goose and betrayed such a suspicious excitement, for he had dropped the idea that the parcel brought from the tavern was the treasure, as soon as he had heard the talk at the widow's stile.
_You_ know his tavern was all right the Saturday I went to the picnic.
As I was standing near a tavern door, there comes a gentleman on horseback, and lights at the door, and wanting to go into the tavern, he calls one of the drawers to hold his horse.
He stayed pretty long in the tavern, and the drawer heard his master call, and thought he would be angry with him.
All the remedy we had for this unlucky adventure was to go and set up the horse at an inn, and send a note by a porter to the tavern, that the gentleman's horse that was lost such a time was left at such an inn, and that he might be had there; that the poor woman that held him, having led him about the street, not being able to lead him back again, had left him there.
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