Word: pabst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other firms have joined in the dry stakes. In early November, G. Heileman Brewing Co. of Wisconsin, which also distributes Old Style Dry in the Midwest, began selling Rainier Dry to its customers in the rainy Northwest, using the contrary slogan: THE DRY SEASON IS COMING. Meanwhile, Milwaukee's Pabst Brewing Co. started selling Olympia Dry, after first testing its potential in Japan...
...Cause th' decadence n' entropy in Shepard's West are as inevitable as passin' out after you drink eight Pabst Blue Ribbons in 15 minutes. Part of th' reason is that th' characters are all so damn self-destructive. Curse is about a family whose members have what one of them describes as "poison" in th' blood. They're alcoholic, they're violent, they're venal, they're ornery...
...strange world, isn't it? Hopper gives the performance of a lifetime and then gets nominated for Hoosiers, which is Rocky in hightops. Life can be pretty cruel. But Hopper could walk off with the award just out of Academy spite. And let's hope he spews Pabst Blue Ribbon over the whole worthless bunch of them...
...Liquidator. Irwin Jacobs, 43, has trained his takeover artillery on such corporate giants as ITT, Pabst Brewing, Kaiser Steel and Disney Productions. He was in an earlier phase of the Phillips battle but sold his 4.6 million shares for a sizable profit shortly before last week's voting...
Jacobs, though, is far more than a liquidator. He is a takeover artist of the first magnitude. In 1981 he went after Pabst. In two hard-fought battles that spanned 14 months, Jacobs and the Pabst management struggled fiercely for shareholder votes and Jacobs spent $7 million in legal fees. In the middle of the affair, Pabst President William F. Smith Jr. posted a sign on his office wall: SHOW ME A GOOD LOSER, AND I'LL SHOW YOU A LOSER. Jacobs actually lost his bid, but he and his partners walked away with a profit of more than...