Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point of these people's lives is that they contain no resolution, no escapes other than the temporary ones offered by a nightly dose of beer drinking and western fantasy. That mechanical animal is a peculiarly apt metaphor for their way of life: it endlessly repeats itself until, like all mechanized fantasies, it must madden anyone caught in its thrall. Nor can the contraption be broken - any more than most people can be broken of the habits, routines and saving dreams of their cramped lives...
Trouble at the Pi Eta clubhouse on Mt. Auburn St. began late this September, when Paul R. Callahan '80, president of the A.D. club and a Pi Eta hopeful, slipped and fell on a beer-soaked floor during the club's annual initiation ceremonies...
...Pullman (pop. 21,000), students from Washington State University jammed the Barley and Hops tavern for "eruption specials," $1 pitchers of beer. In Yakima, which was coated with half an inch of dust, the owner of an auto body shop jokingly put ash on sale for 500 per gal. but got no takers. Hosing or shoveling the ash was only a slightly more effective way of getting rid of it. Complained Yakima Mayor Betty Edmondson: "Wet ash turns into a slurry that is just about impossible to shovel...
...most secret dreams. Their chants were full of spirit and venom, like so many football fans who had once cheered him. But much different...these people hated him, and he hated them, his eyes wandering nervously about in their sockets, half hate, half humiliation, so he drank more beer, and laughed at them. The beer made it easy...
...waited for the show to start, gathering close by his buddies, throwing up impenetrable, bitter walls of beer, and through it they could see the others complain...