Word: brew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their extravagantly eclectic repertoire: from George Crumb's nightmarish Black Angels to the artless tangos of Astor Piazzolla and Jimi Hendrix's protopsychedelic Purple Haze, their trademark encore. The group's latest Elektra Nonesuch CD, PIECES OF AFRICA, finds the Kronos wandering even farther afield. A potent new brew of folk influences, Minimalism and European forms by eight black, brown and white African composers, the music ranges from the irrepressible Mai Nozipo (Mother Nozipo) of Zimbabwean Dumisani Maraire to the brooding White Man Sleeps of South African-born Kevin Volans, and resounds with the sound of the tar (a drum...
Laura Dern's innocent horniness as the servant girl who gets a middle-class Southern family all hot and bothered was one of the year's comic and erotic delights. Calder Willingham's script and Martha Coolidge's direction flavored a warm, steamy brew with just the right amounts of lemon and honey...
...Stone's old enemies, JFK may be another volatile brew of megalomania and macho sentiment. To his new critics, the film may seem deliriously irresponsible, madly muttering like a street raver. But to readers of myriad espionage novels and political-science fictions, in which the CIA or some other gentlemen's cabal is always the villain, the movie's thesis will be a familiar web spinning of high-level malevolence. JFK is Ludlum or Le Carre, but for real...
...Clinton, a condom; To Harkin, a brew...
Meanwhile, Princeton's neighbor to the north, Cook College of Rutgers University, has tapped into a different idea: encouraging the use of kegs. Students who want to host campus parties must attend a seminar on responsible drinking and register a keg with the school before serving the brew. Rutgers officials acknowledge that the policy was drawn up only after concluding that it was virtually impossible to keep track of the cans and bottles students had secretly stashed away. Under the new restrictions, says Lee Schneider, the dean in charge of monitoring the plan, "students will act responsibly and take responsibility...