Word: brewings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Oliver Twist is long (1 hr. 45 min.) and rich enough to spare the cuts. Directed by David Lean and produced by Ronald Neame, the British team responsible for 1947's superb Great Expectations, the movie recreates the novel's pungent brew of harshly realistic detail, extravagant melodrama, sordid depravity and sentimental warmth. Between the dreary, bare-brick expanse of the parish workhouse where Oliver begins life as an orphan and the elegant Brownlow mansion where he finally takes his rightful place, the settings and costumes summon up all but the smells of Britain's lower depths...
Ruml, who thinks that the tax is "an evil brew of inequity, exception, exemption and privilege," said that it creates two kinds of dollars. They are 1) "cheap earned dollars which, if not spent, will be taxed at high [excess-profits tax] rates"; and 2) "expensive dollars which are taxed at ordinary rates . . . The excess-profits tax is therefore not a burden, but a subsidy. It provides cheap dollars to the profitable and established company...
...that mean that the government had learned its lesson and would give up its bulk buying of meat, fruit and other foodstuffs whose quality and quantity have also dropped because of the purchasing system? Certainly not, said the Ministry. Nor will the tea change necessarily give Britons a better brew. One reason: other markets have forged ahead of London, and now get first pick of the best teas. Nevertheless, as Mincing Lane's brokers began to blend and taste their first purchases, they smacked their lips with satisfaction. Said one: "This tastes better already! What a change from Socialist...
...student, Vassar is a reasonably happy place to prepare for a life centered in family and community, a good life and a contribution to society. One might even say that the good Matthew's formula has produced a tasty brew...
Pure Ingredients. Porter probably originated in London's pubs in the early 18th Century, but legend has it that the father of Founder Arthur Guinness discovered it while brewing for an Irish bishop. In making beer one day he burned the barley and accidentally turned out a dark, bitter brew that everyone liked. Whoever discovered it, the brew came to be known as porter because of its popularity among laborers and porters. An enterprising brewer put out an even stronger beer called "stout porter." In Ireland, only the visitor asks for "Guinness." Irishmen simply ask for "a pint" when...