Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weavers galvanize everyone around them. The already spectacular level of drinking escalates, as Alun and his mates gather each midday at the Bible and Crown, the local pub. From there, it is on to expeditions in search of other watering houses that have not been rendered horrible by modern redecoration. At one such ruined spot, Peter pays ironic tribute to the affluent society: "In the bad old days only very rich people could hope to enjoy surroundings like these. Now they're within the reach of all." While the men pub-crawl, the wives gossip, drink wine and discuss...
Coors continues to expand into new states and the boycott continues to follow. And boycotters maintain that as long as Coors exists, they will too. Hilary Richard, manager of Harvard Law School's pub, which does not sell Coors, says, "to the extent that [the family has] politicized themselves, I don't think that they can separate their politics from their business...
Interest in Nazi memorabilia is the greatest it has been since the war. Books, posters, insignias and nationalistic music that celebrate the Third Reich are voraciously sought out in all parts of Germany. In the mornings, swastikas are found painted on the walls of the Munich pub turned-museum where Hitler first rallied the National Socialist Party...
...brewery, though the last of the old breweries in Vermont went out in the 1890s, as far as anyone knows. There is one brewery in New Hampshire, the big, mass-market Anheuser-Busch operation in Merrimack. And only one very small outfit in Massachusetts, an enterprising Boston pub called the Commonwealth Brewing Co. Ltd., which turns out a variety of sturdy ales and porters for consumption on the premises. It is true that the somewhat misleadingly named Boston Beer Co. sells Samuel Adams, a good, chewy boutique lager that yuppies buy for nearly $7 a six-pack on payday...
...twenty years, has sought to become Britain's leading rock revivalist while modestly updating his sound to fit the times. In the late 1970s, he souped up his version of 1950s American rockabilly and became a leader of the "Angry Young Man" movement that made famous such British pub-rockers as Costello, Graham Parker, Joe Jackson and Nick Lowe. In the 1980s, he has even attempted, with varying degrees of success, to graft synthesizers onto his otherwise backward-looking music...