Word: brewing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if you don't know D.H Lawrence, you do. Much in the way that Miles Davis' "Bitches' Brew" unwittingly paved the road for Kenny G., the author of Lady Chatterley's Lover has bequeathed to our collective consciousness some of the cheesiest excesses of the English imagination. (We all know them by now; the sturdy matron, the randy stable boy, a "coincidence" in the back of an ancient Woolsley. Boom chickaboom...
White House officials decried the contract's fiscal prescriptions as "Voodoo II" -- the same witches' brew that during the 1980s swelled the budget deficit and drove up interest rates. Gingrich and his followers disagreed, but at the same time admitted that theirs was less a governing agenda than a battle plan. They showed the Democrats what they will be up against -- in numbers and intensity -- in the fall campaign and afterward. Few of the hopefuls sweating on the Capitol steps last Tuesday resembled Bob Michel, the decent, gentle, gee-whillikers Congressman from Illinois who retires this year as House minority...
Fans say the dark roast brings out the full flavor of the coffee; critics say it simply makes the brew taste burnt. The most cynical have taken to calling it "Charbucks...
...committee member Laura M. Brew '95 had other ideas. "The only way to keep them away is to make it unpleasant for them to come here," she said...
They camp on doorsteps, in schoolyards, in cemeteries, in fields so crowded that people sleep standing up. Men and women search for fresh water only to find a thick, slimy brew so fouled by human waste that it does more to spread disease than quench thirst. For miles around, the trees have been disappearing, fed into pitiful cooking fires. If the refugees could burn corpses, there would be fuel enough for weeks...