Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Inner-city inhabitants carry ghetto-blaster radios to announce themselves, but ruburban teen-agers favor, as the weapon of aural aggression, the 1973 Pontiac Trans Am with full-throat custom muffler. Rubber is applied to Main Street far into the night, accompanied by rebel yells and the shattering of beer bottles. Newcomers create different problems for the police. Although such naughty amusements are passe in the suburbs, the police chief of Harvard, Ill., had to ask the host of a nude cocktail party to pull the shades, and a Cloverdale, Calif., officer confiscated the large marijuana crop of an immigrant...
...Dark Clouds over the Drive-Ins" [Aug. 8] has not been to an outdoor movie in the past few years. No parent would take his child to see the trash being shown. And no adult in his right mind would want to go either. There is too much noise, beer, drugs and blasting stereos going on around your...
...lobster and steamers were tasty, and the ban on alcohol at Fort Williams Park was relaxed so the nation's Governors could enjoy beer and wine. Still, there was a bigger reason for the rare harmony that pervaded the National Governors Conference in Portland, Me., last week. Democrat and Republican alike, most of the state executives are being forced to raise state taxes and cut services, partly because Congress and the Reagan Administration refuse to do the same thing at the federal level, and that is not their preferred mode of governing...
...writes about people whose lives evoke sad songs and wailing pedal steel guitars. They work at checkout counters, wait on tables, tend bar or fry hamburgers at fast-food outlets. All are somehow stranded, searching for a pattern to their existence beyond the wet circles left behind by their beer cans or cocktail glasses...
...Massacre, but he also raved about Burt Reynolds' W. W. and the Dixie Dancekings. Reviewing the new Stroker Ace, a dreary bomb starring Reynolds and Loni Anderson, he found much to praise: "Five motor-vehicle chases. Eight crashes. No beasts. No breasts, but Loni comes close. One beer-joint brawl. One guy through a plate-glass window and into the swim pool. No kung fu. No plot. Two and a half stars (one off for lack of sufficient Loni anatomy). Joe Bob says check it out." Drive-ins may be down, but in Alamo country, fans like...