Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vile Kyle sports a scraggly beard, guzzles beer and rides a motorcycle. Doug Plug looks so much like a fire hydrant that dogs eye him affectionately. These disgusting creatures, along with other urchins like Ghastly Ashley and Messy Tessie, are the Garbage Pail Kids, who are depicted on a hot-selling collection of bubble-gum cards manufactured by Topps Chewing Gum, the Brooklyn company that has produced baseball trading cards for 35 years. To the older generation, the Garbage Pail Kids are repulsive parodies of the Cabbage Patch Kids, but to the preteen set, ugly is beautiful. Says Auronda Barnes...
...they play rock with no fuss and maybe a little sloppiness that can pass for funk. The Fabulous Thunderbirds, who made their first album in 1979 and have opened concerts for the Rolling Stones, still have the true chugalug spirit of a bar band--you can almost hear the beer bottles whistling past their heads during some of the tunes on this rambunctious album--but they also have the musical chops of a top session group and the considerable singing and songwriting talents of Kim Wilson, who also blows a mean blues harp. There is a lot of inbreeding...
Perhaps the Oscar for the most sensational in film goes to Quincy's society for its 1980 season. During the showing of Animal House there, several students threw beer cans at the screen and damaged it. To raise money for repairs, the society decided to bring back an old tradition of showing the X-rated film Deep Throat during exam period...
Secondly and thirdly, many in the student government want to separate "student" issues from "political" issues--e.g. beer parties and social events from federal student loan programs--just like Reagan and council forefather and mastermind Professor Dowling. Labeling issues "political" is usually a means of avoiding conflict with the government or university adminsitration desirous of political order on campus...
...young. He was traumatized by the Vietnam War. His only son mysteriously disappeared while he was clipping the hedges one afternoon. And his wife divorced him. "Life's a bitch, eh?" remarks his neighbor Harold (George Wendt) while nodding his head and stuffing his face with pizza and Schlitz beer...