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...Hsin Chiao bar, habitues advise visitors to stick to the excellent domestic beer. Chinese champagne ($2 a bottle) is cloyingly sweet, and the fiery mao-tai, a vodka-like spirit distilled from millet that is a favorite formal banquet tipple, reams out the unwary Western esophagus like a Roto-Rooter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: A Half-Baedeker For China Tourists | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

Besides, Scorpio had been an Aquarius rooter from the start. Although he had the same affectionately ambiguous feelings toward him that he once held for the Brooklyn Dodgers, he followed Aquarius' erratic career with a kid brother's awe and expectation. To go directly from The Bobbsey Twins to The Naked and the Dead was not an experience one overcame easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reflections on a Star-Crossed Aquarius | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...truly American sounds, one is surely the radio station break, complete with fragmentary tune and a slick chorus−"Double-yew Emmm Eeee Ellll, Light and Lively!" Blame it on Pepper & Tanner of Memphis, those wonderful folks who also brought you "Hey, Culligan Man" and the Roto-Rooter jingle (". . . and away go troubles down the drain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Mammon Tabernacle Choir | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

Hartwick's field in general slowed down all of Harvard's reactions. Unlike the Crimson field, Hartwick's was covered completely with mud straw and hay. An early morning rain had made conditions even worse. "The field is in great condition," a Hartwick fan said to a Harvard rooter after one of the Crimson's forwards had fallen...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii, | Title: Crimson Booters Lose, 4-3, to Hartwick | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

Quirm is Brian's greatest rooter. "I like to consider Brian my very best friend," Quirm said, as he tucked in the bottom sheet of Dowling's bed. "I like to help Brian out. He's so helpless around the house, you know...

Author: By Stroke Talbot, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Bri's Roommate | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

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