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Stephen King's characters live in places like Libertyville, Penn., and travel to Pittsburgh for a special trip. They drink Iron City beer, eat Campbell's Chunky Beef Soup and spread their sandwiches on Wonder Bread. They belong to Weight Watchers and get their cars Midasized; their kids listen to Kiss and Andy Gibb, and their fathers work for H&R Block. And when they want to read a novel, no doubt they reach for a Stephen King...
King throws brand names around as liberally as if he were collecting commissions from companies. But in fact his incessant litany of commercials stems from the same impulse that dares Stephen Spielberg to fill his movies with Reese's Pieces and beer jingles. The device embeds the book or the movie firmly into the consciousness of its audience; the labels make everything familiar, and we placidly swallow it as the real thing...
Walking over to Lincoln Park Wednesday night. I stop at a liquor store, buy a bottle of beer, and ask for an opener. I know what the Weather Bureau has got planned for tonight. Earlier, at the briefing at the Michigan Washington-New-England-and-New-York-State movement headquarters, they told us that that after the speeches we were going to march through the city. The police would try to stop us. Police make me very uneasy. The beer fails to make me the least bit high...
...course of a game, the bleachers of Tiger Stadium in Detroit become a community Rich or poor, the beer-drinking and fun-loving people sitting there know what the sport is about. These faithfuls toss beachballs to and fro, expecting that it will eventually fall into center field with Glenn Wilson there to recover it Wilson will usually tip his hat to the fans. So would Mickey Stanley. And Al Cowens...
...despite this strict regimen, "he was almost always willing to go out for a beer of a cup of coffee," said Matt Hamel, a close friend of King's who graduated last year...