The Euro Basketball championship was on the taverna's b+w TV. One of the watchers was a local, 10 yr old problem child. The poor, snot-nosed kid wore a filthy, sheepskin vest, and someone had taped a bandage-gauze directly onto the back of his unshorn head. O Kritikos owner Christos, had just turned down a blank check offer to buy from an infatuated Italian scriptwriter. The latter wanted badly to create a Zorba-like play featuring the life of Manolis. *Note the empty Theokepasti bell-tower.