Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine with which you mow your lawn is, of course, your paramour.) It has long been called Survival City. Another monicker was Mobtown, after its citizens' proclivity for rioting. Because it was long famed for 50 beer, 100 crabcakes and 150 rye whisky, it was more affectionately dubbed Nickel City. Bawlamer, 252 years old, was traditionally a blue-collar, beer-and-shot town, built on 19th century technologies, mainly steel and shipbuilding, that have since trailed off, as has its population. Of its 780,000 people, down from 939,000 in 1960, almost 55% are now black, of whom...
...customer in a Chicago shoe boutique wanted something to set off a new dress that would also go with the rest of her wardrobe. The salesclerk asked hopefully: "Have you thought of pewter?" The customer looked blank for a moment, then replied: "Not since I last bought beer mugs...
Gustav Mahler may be as unfamiliar to one chunk of the population as Blue Oyster Cult is to another, but practically everybody knows what beer weekends-were-made-for and which hamburger hawkers will do-it-all-for-you. In an age of increasingly fractionated audiences for radio and records, and of a dozen or so subdivisions just within rock, jingles selling products may be America's only truly popular, all-embracing music...
...from the open window's the B-52s and their tender ballad. "Rock Lobster, blare. That isn't all: people are playing catch with beer kegs, tossing them out the third floor window to friends waiting on the ground. And that isn't all; inside the Winthrop House suite they are playing football, tackle football, and there is a large bole developing in one wall. When the House Master orders them to stop, they offer him a beer: when the senior tutor calls the police, someone hears the sirens, gets the idea there is a fire, and empties every extinguisher...
Everyone plays boisterous games (though not everyone tosses beer kegs out the window--if you feel the urge, make sure the keg is empty, and the window open). Stereos are rarely played softly; there are, truth be told, very few Mantovani afficionados here. And "noisy or disorderly occupants of a room in a dormitory under University supervision" are very rarely, if ever dismissed. A few years ago, some Kirkland House students built a disco dance floor in their room, complete with strobes and turbo-charged stereos. Every night, they danced. all through the fall semester, even though their dance floor...