Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still drives drunk. I think he feels that there would be a certain romanticism in dying young, behind the wheel with beer in hand. It certainly would be an appropriate fate...
Where else would Harvard President Derek C. Bok and a beer-besotted Michigan St. booster identified only as Ponzie forget their differences and join ranks--simply to cheer...
...Barbara, Calif., they are known as tree people, after Fig Tree Park, a place many of them call home. Palms outstretched, the scruffy men and women beg from pedestrians on the main shopping artery. They urinate in alleys, rummage for food in supermarket dumpsters, snooze on store stoops. Their beer cans and assorted flotsam dot the lush green parks. They are Santa Barbara's homeless, perhaps 2,000 displaced people in a population of 75,000. The city's mostly retired, wealthy, conservative Establishment, although resigned to their presence, is determined to contain their numbers in the prosperous town just...
...When he lets his film relax into hip facetiousness, and when Keaton parades his elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker. Perhaps the brand of canny moral exuberance that Gung Ho finally prescribes is available these days only to Presidents, evangelists and coaches in the N.C.A.A. Final Four. On the big screen it seems suffocatingly smug...
...seemed last week as if all of France was on the campaign trail. Beneath a tent on a mud-covered field outside Paris, the French Communists dined on sausage, beer and angry denunciations of the country's 10.1% unemployment rate. Meanwhile, in a carpeted convention center on the other side of the city, the far-right National Front feasted on smoked ham, wine and heated accusations of "foreign submersion," a veiled reference to France's burgeoning community of North African immigrants...