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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't seem to attract as large crowds as do some of the square's other bars, her response gets right to the point. "We check everybody," is her simple answer. "The atmosphere is well-controlled here." I thank Helen and get up to leave, never having ordered my beer. Before I go, she becomes my first interviewee to give...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Inebriation | 10/22/1997 | See Source »

...Million Dollars." After their performance, the group stuck around on stage to play a few mock cover songs. The band poked fun at the Spice Girls and even fellow MIX Fest artist Paula Cole. In their gag, they referenced the lyric "while you go have a beer" from Cole's hit "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone." The group also made up a mock song about the many fans sitting high above in the trees surrounding City Hall Plaza...

Author: By Marc P. Resteghini, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Lesson in MIXology: Sponsor Good, Free Music and Fans Will Come | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...follows metaphor, which follow conceit, which follows simile. There is proliferation of "like" and "seemed and imaginative figures of speech are densely crammed together. Sometime Golden's images ring false--raindrop that hit "like quail eggs," a sky "extravagant with stars," a retired geisha "more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirst...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Murphy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Making of a Geisha and Life in an Okiya | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...Oktoberfest began in 1978 as a small beer bash. It has since expanded beyond its German roots, with Tibetan, Indian and Chinese food and international musical acts...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Oktoberfest Draws Locals, Not Students | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

Beth A. Stewart '00, council treasurer, said that reimbursements have been given to House committees for thousands of dollars worth of beer, coffee, a fax machine for student use and exercise equipment...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: U.C. Bestows Service Award on Veteran Shuttle Driver | 10/14/1997 | See Source »

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