Word: brew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics of the test note that the magazine quaffed the fresh-tasting stuff from the Sierra Nevada snowmelt rather than the sometimes foul-smelling brew from the groundwater basins of the San Fernando Valley. While the report has gratified local officials, it has perturbed others. Says Sy Linden, co-owner of a Santa Monica appliance store: "This story is killing my water-purifier business...
...both ordered beef and brew sandwiches...
Freshman year we'd get the cheap stuff--quart bottles of Magnum or Olde English 800--and sometimes we'd splurge for a shorty (12-pack) of Henry's, a local brew which soon became our beer of choice. Then we'd go to the usual outdoor drinking spots, the names of which have been around since long before our time--Inspo, Arbo, the Circle, the Crest, the Peanut Bowl, the Meadow, the 18th Hole, the Water Towers, the list went...
Another ardent Sox supporter, Peter R. Kagan'90 left in the fourth inning to play intramuralbasketball, toting along his portable T.V. set. Hereturned in the seventh inning, slamming down theset and declaring "Give me a brew. I need to drownmy sorrows...
...brew tends to be of the lite variety these days. In the past the author could do a pretty fair imitation of a character in Animal House, and remembers writing Cujo under the influence of malt and hops. Then two years ago, physicians picked up symptoms of heart arrhythmia, and these days King tends to watch his solids and liquids and waistline. But he still pays very little attention to externals. Two lawn chairs on the driveway is about as much luxury as he likes to display to the neighbors. "I guard against success," he says, "because you start...