Word: ale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...head into Harvard Square, a place which, like a piece of pop kinesthetic art, suggests vigor without actually exerting any. The eternal question here seems to be: if Cambridge is such a progressive city, how come half its population keeps alive by collecting the Soho All-Natural Ginger Ale bottles that the other half throws away...
...original Harvard men these differences were trivial. They were all wealthy, they all wore those funny looking old outfits that made everyone appear unsightly, and they all drank fine ale at the neighborhood "ye olde shoppe" (for indeed these were carefree days and no one cared much then for spelling...
...National Endowment for the Arts. In the mists of the future, they discovered, each could see Catamount looming small. They began to work out financing: stock sold to a few believers and a low-interest community-developme nt loan. Mason was aiming at something close to English real ale, though he knew there would have to be some touch-up carbonation to accommodate the colonials' taste for fizz. Beer drinkers in Vermont and New Hampshire, the intended markets, bought a lot of bottles and not much draft beer, so Catamount would be bottled without additives, and, most important, there would...
...moderate but merry '80s. Here is an upscale-looking bottle of Seagram's Golden Spirits in a flavor called "mandarin vodka"; it tastes like a spritzy cocktail but contains little more alcohol than a beer. How about a Wineberry Sausalito Sling, with a flavor suggestive of ginger ale and bubble gum, or a Calvin Cooler in citrus flavor, with real fruit pulp floating...
Which is not to say that Thiebaud, earlier in his career, did not seem to have his own brand of vulgarity. The time was distant--20 years ago, in fact --and the "vulgarity" had to do with food. Jasper Johns had his ale cans, Claes Oldenburg his Brobdingnagian hamburgers. Thiebaud in the mid-'60s was the laureate of pies: spongy peaks, white with coconut frosting and Reddi Wip, dark buttes sliced open to reveal caves of chocolate, pastry craters cupping their unruffled lakes of Key lime gelatin. Since mass food was one of the motifs of pop art, Thiebaud...