Word: beers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jimi runs away from restaurant tabs, allows a queenie to moon over him while he feeds him dinner and begs at the backs of a restaurant for scraps. People in suits may wistfully stare out of their office windows at some guy sprawled in the park with a beer, but in reality they're better off where they...
...shirts of an indeterminate color. Men who smelled of fried cheese and clove cigarettes and carried a dog-eared copy of On the Road in their army-surplus backpack. Men your father would squint at suspiciously. Flaccid, feeble men who sat on sofas at parties, flicking ashes into their beer cans and making snide remarks under their breath. These were my new paramours. I was prepared for the worst...
...sporting chance at understanding Bennett; it is as close to an autobiography as this gentleman is likely to vouchsafe. And in its evocations of Bennett's early years, it offers a virtual oratorio of embarrassment. His father, the butcher, played double bass in a jazz band and produced herb beer at home but succeeded at neither. His prim "Mam" made a religion of getting along; eventually she retreated into what Bennett calls "her flat, unmemoried days," like a meeker George III. Young Alan sought glamour in Leeds' double-decker trams, musty mystery in the artifacts of Grandma's parlor. Later...
...group of approximately 20 young men was seen drinking beer on Mt. Auburn St. outside Clavery Hall. Three patrol cars pulled up, but the men walked past them and down one block to the main entryway of Adams House...
...symmetric counterpart is Deedee, a newlywed whose wandering eye is born of desperation and loneliness. She has escaped the sight of her cheating husband's empty pillow for the soothing rythym of the laundromat. Childlike Deedee's dreams extend only to having beer poured over her as she joins her husband in the winner's circle of a drag race...