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Word: malts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Advertising executives say that animals often project images that mere humans cannot duplicate: the toughness of Dodge's fighting rams, the reassuring watchfulness of the Hartford Insurance Group's stag or the power of the Schlitz malt liquor bull. Schlitz has spent $30,000 for bulls that storm through the walls of bars to prove their machismo. The theme of the new Mercury campaign is the automaker's battle with foreign competition. In each commercial, the lynx, lured by an unseen pan of beefsteak, leaps atop a huge globe and symbolizes a sleek survivor that will conquer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Wags to Riches | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

What Dalton describes as her "waltz for the malt" style has enough bleary good humor and lazy musical charm that one could imagine it sung by both outlaws like Waylon Jennings and slickers like Kenny Rogers. Although she calls her music "progressive," her best songs are little nuggets in the rushing middle of the country mainstream. If Lacy's performing and writing are not of themselves unique, together they are formidable, a fact acknowledged by Billy Sherrill, CBS Records vice president and executive producer in Nashville. "There are a lot of good singers out there, but there aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs from a Loose Shingle | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

Zito, who said "Terrence, This is Stupid Stuff" exemplified "escapism versus whatever its opposite is," indicated his two favorite lines from the poem were: "Malt does more than Milton can, To justify God's waste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boylston | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...Kentucky "Jaybird" because he was always jabbering about some wrongness the world had done to him, and some wrongness was always being done, it seemed, in that east Kentucky town, in 1840 no longer the frontier but still a place where a man could make a decent living making malt whiskey and selling it to the survivors of the Iroquois Five Nations, and nobody would care until the night when Jaybird Bell, liquored u on his own hooch, killed a man in a knife fight. Then he would have to flee, back across the line into western Virginia, up into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prince Emmanuel's Land | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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