Word: brew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billboards around Nottinghamshire, England, were certainly attention grabbers. They asserted that Ronald Reagan has "never had a pint of Mansfield." That was true enough. The President had never even heard of the small, 150-year-old local brew. The ad, with its crafty nonendorsement endorsement, was designed to "provoke intrigue," explains Mansfield Marketing Director Richard Lewis. The brewery was careful, however, not to provoke the White House, which voiced no objections because the picture was in the public domain. But Lewis piously protests he would never take similar advantage of a British politician. The U.S. Chief Executive was chosen...
After fighting a losing battle last winter for a city liquor license, Ruggles Pizza is stocking a selection of non-alcoholic "near beers" that owners hope will satisfy brew-drinking customers...
...throw another issue into the brew. If we are so desperately concerned wit the social conditions in Central America, demanding that our military aid be converted to greater economic and humanitarian assistance, why are we silent regarding the wretched conditions of the impoverished in Lebanon, and they are many...
...representative strain of each type and growing it-till it reaches many times its original strength-in a broth made with snips of monkey kidney. (To keep production going, 4,000 monkeys a month are flown in from India and the Philippines.) Then the virus in each deadly brew is killed with formaldehyde. Strangely, although the virus particles now lose their power to multiply or to cause disease, they keep their power to stimulate a higher animal to produce antibodies. Because in the Salk formula the virus types are mixed, the Salk vaccine is really three vaccines in one, effective...
...McKenzie. These Two Stooges of the Great White North sprawled about in parkas, plaid shirts and toques, guzzling their beloved Molson's and calling each other "hosers." Now they have been given 90 minutes of screen time and a license to steal children's lunch money. Strange Brew, which the two stars also directed, sets the Cheech and Chong of malt into an informal remake of Hamlet and includes "quotations" from Star Wars, Superman, W.C. Fields movies and Polish jokes. (Sample dialogue, Bob to heroine: "Hey, you're real nice. If I didn't have puke...