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Word: draught (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some inexpensive food and drink, check out the Brewery, located on the corner of Broadway and York Streets. Get there early and take advantage of the 4-7 happy hour, featuring 25 cent draughts and 25 cent hot dogs. This place, which just opened up this fall, wants desperately to be the college hang-out, and continually offers cheap specials on food and drink to draw in the collegiate crowd. Don't go here after dinner, though for by about 10 p.m. the Brewery has turned into just another dumb, psuedo-cool pick-up joint. The money they lose with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slaking a Connecticut Thirst | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...omnipotent volumes over what one suspects is the only amplifier in the Brazilian backlands. Diegues subtly uses Wilker's ridiculously inept shamming to represent more seriously the modern demand to sell out and adapt. One of the blackest jokes in the movie occurs when Lord Gypsy annoints his draught-plagued audience with bogus snow to the crooning of "White Christmas;" Gypsy proclaims "I can make it snow in Brazil like it does in all civilized countries." His ironic tone suggested he knows what it takes to get ahead in that world...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: To the Brazilian Beat | 2/5/1981 | See Source »

...fiction, murder and loyalty, blur dangerously. When the king's party enter Macbeth's castle to spend the fateful night, young Donalbain screams and falls to the ground with a dagger in his side--just kidding, of course. Banquo's ghost strolls in and pours himself a nice, long draught (rather bloody, actually) at Macbeth's banquet. The messenger warning Lady Macduff of impending doom tries to seduce her after her moody adolescent son has told her to find a new husband. You can't trust anyone around here...

Author: By Jonathan B. Propp, | Title: Trouble in Scotland | 10/25/1980 | See Source »

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