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Your article on the U.S. beer brawl had several analogies with events in Britain over the past decade. In the early 1970s the big companies monopolized the United Kingdom markets by buying up many smaller breweries, with the result that many beers became bland, sterile and uninteresting. This led to an enormous consumer backlash. Subsequently, the surviving small breweries, which used traditional techniques for producing flavorful rather than pasteurized beer, have flourished...
...behind the bland expressions of good will, there is a determination not to let the Palestinians ever plunge Jordan into either another civil war or another bout of border fighting with Israel. "The P.L.O. would be welcome [as a fighting force] if there were an Arab strategic fighting plan to face Israel militarily," the same Jordanian official says. "As long as such a strategy does not exist, we will not allow the rise of an armed movement within Jordan. You want to fight Israel? That means men, arms. Set up a strategy, then we are interested. Otherwise...
They like smooth-tasting, relatively bland suds as compared with, say, the heavy and bitter Germanic brews from which American beer descended. The result is a standardized American "taste" that varies little from beer to beer. Says a Boston beer consultant, Joseph Owades, of the two leading brands, Budweiser and Miller High Life...
...loyal Horatio, Stephen Lang is, like his two immediate predecessors on these boards, passable but bland--a far cry from the exemplary Horatio that Earle Hyman gave us here in 1958. In a traditional doubling, Michael Allinson is effective both as the possibly angelic, possibly diabolic Ghost (supported by amplified heartbeats) and as the First Player. Coe has solved the seeming redundancy of the dumb-show and play-within-a-play by conflating the two. While some of the brightly-garbed troupe of thespians mime the action, the First and Second Players forgo reciting their lines in favor of singing...
...enthusiasm from Panama's seven chief civilian opposition parties. The civilians, however, appear to be cowed by the National Guard, and so far have uttered little outcry. The day following Paredes' announcements, a spokesman for a four-party coalition including Panama's Christian Democrats made a bland statement noting with approval the possiblity of Electoral Tribunal changes (that body has long been stacked with Torrijos appointees) and ministerial resignations. Nonetheless, Royo's resignation, said the parties, revealed the "incapacity" of Panama's National Guard-dominated political system. The guard's grip on that system...