Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Christie Brinkley pitches beer...
...have $25 to throw around you could better spend it on this book than on pizza and beer. The stories Pryce-Jones and Rand reproduce are clearly valuable. Someone could learn something from them at a boring cocktail party. But the same has been told better by others, and ultimately, Paris in the Third Reich bears the flaw of its genre; it sacrifices unity for the specific...
...Steve. "It's bizarre that there are no small children. It's very strange being only with students. There are lots more punks, lots more preps, and lots more of everything else in between." And parties"--he laughs--"parties are O.K. here if you like fighting for your beer and your women...
...Bonnard. My new glasses, I explained, and I'm terribly sorry, but significant variations elude me, vodka exhausts me, I was young once, essential services are being maintained." A passage from The Zombies begins: "The zombies say: 'Wonderful time! Beautiful day! Marvelous singing! Excellent beer! Would that lady marry me? I don't know!' In a high wind the leaves fall from the trees, from the trees." Different dreams, the same empty metaphors. Undeniably, Barthelme has perfected his sleight of hand since 1961, when the first of these 60 stories was published. But as even animal...
...Ogden Nash might have trouble seeing the forest as well as the trees. Now appearing along American highways are giant, air-filled, three-dimensional billboards. Since Robert Keith Vicino, 28, the president of Robert Keith & Co. of San Diego, created his first inflatable billboard display (a 30-ft. tall beer bottle for Budweiser in 1979), demand has inflated as fast as the blow-up advertisements. This year Vicino expects sales of $1.2 million...