Word: beers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Food appeared plentiful in small sidewalk markets. Indeed, there were hundreds of little shops selling everything from butcher knives to onions. There was even a souvenir shop selling a few empty bottles, some screws left by the French and bits of downed American aircraft. Free beer is distributed at various points around the city...
Pride. Life offstage was no less strenuous. Melchior consumed mammoth meals, washed down by heroic quantities of aquavit and Danish beer. He traveled widely and was an enthusiastic big-game hunter. (He liked to wear the skin of a deer he had bagged as his costume in Siegfried.) He took great joy in entertaining friends with his wife "Kleinchen" during festive holidays like Christmas, when he unabashedly decked himself out as a jolly Santa Claus...
...ritual, deliberate sinning, of the afternoon cigarette and beer begins. Her ritual of reorienting herself to this place of odd noises and smells. She snaps the radio on. The jive soul station. The jive rap of a jive brother, and the ditty-bop love songs. It all soothes over her current terror with pastel washes of nostalgia. Except sometimes the bouncing bass of the dj, startling her with its abrasive masculinity. Making her remember. Discord...
...never bothers to turn on the lights, and as the early evening fades to night, the walls grow ever-closer to her now inert body. She is dozing on the sofa; the beer three-quarters gone. The ash-tray speckled and dusted with the remnants of four half-finished cigarettes...
Matthews residents also instigated a massive Yard riot this Fall and sponsored a "jockathon." In the "jockathon" a resident ran around the Yard wearing only an athletic supporter to win a case of beer...