Word: beers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their step when they're going down, they just fall or jump. It is the playwright's job to watch, and to watch carefully, to capture the fall precisely, and perhaps less naively than with a perspective like the bus driver's--a man who dreams of polkas and beer, and can't understand a woman with no more songs to sing...
...William Simon's Treasury Department jocks. Although it represented one of the few Congressional triumphs over the Ford Administration for the summer of 1975, the game was not very reassuring. William Simon, in high dudgeon with Bermuda shorts and a Chevy Chase tennis tan, circulated, slapping backs and sipping beer, among assorted Congress people and Senators, all of whom seemed receptive to more of Simon than just the easy-to-hit pitches he had thrown all afternoon. One almost wished for the Nixon-era "political hardball" operatives back again--their deviousness was at least straight-forwardly obnoxious. Simon, while just...
...most of all it will be The Game which will pull me through February. That incredible game. And I'll sit back with my Bosox cap on firmly and my 1967 "The Pennant Is Ours" beer mug frothing and begin the slide show...
...lower-taxed suburbs. An increase in the state income tax is widely predicted. As recently as last August, Mayor Beame once again raised the city corporate tax, which comes on top of state and federal business levies. Beame even tried to win approval of a tax on beer, though his own administration had worked feverishly last year to prevent two breweries from leaving the city. Writes Ken Auletta, a sometime Democratic Party official who is a vocal critic of New York's government: "The city's unique form of socialism just doesn't work in a general capitalist economy. People...
...Kevin H. White put up a meal of two New England lobsters, a crock of baked beans, and two tickets to the Yankee Doodle Game (part of the Massachusetts lottery). Therefore Berry, mayor of Cincinnati, offered "a good German dinner, consisting of sauerbraten, sauerkraut, potato cakes, and good German beer...