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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During dinner, McGuane sips nonalcoholic beer and talks about an upcoming cutting-horse competition in Billings. Cutting, a highly stylized ritual in which a horse and rider "work" a cow in much the same way a defensive guard tries to block a basketball, is a dear topic for the McGuanes. They also happen to be formidably good at it. Laurie is Montana's defending cutting- horse champion, Tom was No. 1 the year before, and the two are the leading contenders for the 1989 trophy. "We take turns," Laurie laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOM MCGUANE: He's Left No Stone Unturned | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

However, there's still one big difference between Nebraska and Harvard. Walk into any bar in Lincoln, plop 60 cents on the table and soon you'll be sipping a glass of Bud draft. That's right, for the price of one beer at the Boathouse, you can get a pitcher of beer in Lincoln. Sports bar, how you doing? Don't even bother to tell...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Tales of a Lost Wanderer in Nebraska | 12/5/1989 | See Source »

When the customer hands over a ruble, the bartender gives him back 50 kopecks. Says the bartender: "We're out of beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winter's Bitter Wind | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...walks into a Moscow bar and orders a beer. "One ruble," says the bartender. "What?" the man protests. "Last week it cost only 50 kopecks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winter's Bitter Wind | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

...Well, 50 kopecks is for the beer, and 50 kopecks is for perestroika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winter's Bitter Wind | 12/4/1989 | See Source »

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