Word: beers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep the critics guessing? One would like to think so. Why else would Keillor, wry humorist and folksy radio personality, populate his stories with Neanderthals? Many of Keillor's narrators and protagonists, perplexed by the emotional machinations of modern women, can only shrug their shoulders, reach for another beer and perhaps scratch themselves. One story, written in verse, has the narrator muse...
...they tell us we can't drink because we're under age. They say that we had better be 21 if we want to bring a keg or a fifth up to the room; that under no circumstances can we finish that bottle of beer in the dining hall. Three kinds, no less. Mixed messages? Hypocrisy? Nothing less...
While baseball leagues for women have come and gone during the past 50 years, the Silver Bullets, sponsored by the Coors beer company, are different. They won't play teams of other women. Their opponents will...
...raconteur. Once at Swarthmore College she found herself berated by members of a seminar on women's studies as too elitist (she used compound sentences); too lax as an academic (she used endnotes instead of footnotes); too much of a sellout (she published with a mainstream press). Later, over beer and pizza, the same students turned out to be friendly and vulnerable, voicing their late-adolescent doubts about sexuality and self-esteem...
...fans have to adjust to the new ways as well. When the team gave away free beer one night, Penguin supporters pitched empties onto the ice in disgust at some unsportsmanlike play on the part of the opposition. Warshaw has devised a solution: next time the beer will come in "collectors' cans" emblazoned with the Penguin logo. "They won't throw those away," he predicts...