Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slug of beer. The two men sit by each other, the beer between them. They say nothing to each other, except during the most intolerable commercials: double entendres with lissome teenage girls, men who live their lives at the edge with open-chested shirts. Granite cocks. And then the serious stuff begins, and the music trumpets forth the coming of the commentator: "Day 78," he says, announcing the score. A bunch of angry Iranian militants beat themselves with chains, cutting to the Russians rumbling toward the free world, and ah...the graphic mushroom cloud covers the picture and the words...
...slug of beer. Crush out the cigarette, blink, and lean forward, towards the screen. Frank Reynolds is blinking at them. He never quite looks them in the eye. The TV projects its blue gleam over waxen faces. A sip of beer. In an aggressive gesture President Carter may boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow if the Russians don't go home. This threat elicits a wry smile from one of the two men. The other sneers. The camera shows President Carter speaking with utter gravity, but the two men can't discern what he is saying because the correspondent talks...
...stop thinking about all those problems that you can't solve anyway, about how you can't bring yourself to call your section leader again and how there is no way it is going to be done in time. If it was a TV screen you'd throw a beer bottle through it. Maybe you will anyway. CLASS=2 UNAVAILABLE...
...every "bomb designed" you will find a potential solution to an energy problem; for every "crackpot" you will find a good friend; for every "racial slur" you will find a rewarding cultural exchange; for every high school "loadie" you will find a National Merit Scholar; for every teen-age beer bust you will find a complete absence of major crime; and for every "psychologically abused child" you will find many who are hugged like Teddy bears...
...potable domestic wine was quite possibly the only undertaking in which Thomas Jefferson ever admitted defeat. The most grievous blow of all was the Prohibition era, in which the wine industry died on the vine. It has not been helped since by many Americans' two-fisted addiction to beer and hard liquor or aversion to alcohol in any form (dry and blue laws). Yet the past decade has seen the completion of a delicious circle: the American discovery of wine, on a large scale, as a part of the civilized life, and the maturing of an industry capable...