Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maybe paralyzed from the South African toadskin the freaked-out hitchhiker passed off as Nirvana several thousand moments ago in California, back there in a distant space before the angry pumped up reds-speed-and-Jack-Daniels buzz twisted, writhed and plummeted into the mellow blue-black of sweet Colombian dope and then, groggily, awoke into a bright new day of desert sunshine, cocaine and, lest we forget, as its undeniable, irrepressible tendrils finger their way into our minds, Queen Acid, begging, declaring, forcing us to recognize that the black spot affixed near the apex of the road...
...offerings on supermarket shelves, dependable mediocrity and the illusion of choice might well be the twin goals of American mass production. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the beer section, where most national brands stack up with dull similarity. Typically, they are bland, with thin sour-sweet aftertastes. One yearns for the winy, copper-etched malt aroma and the complex flavors of the best beers of Germany, Denmark and Holland...
ADMINISTRATION: Daniel M. Rubin, Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Margaret G. Haudek, Katharine K. McNevin, Rafael Soto, Elizabeth M. Waite, Carrie Ross Welch...
...share of the M.I.T. pension fund, was reduced in last week's debacle. But some good may yet come of the Crash of '87, he says, if it lessens the flow of bright graduate students to investment banks. "It may make engineers out of some yuppies," he smiles. "Sweet are the uses of adversity...
ADMINISTRATION: Daniel M. Rubin, Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Teresa A. Foster, Helga Halaki, Margaret G. Haudek, Katharine K. McNevin, Rafael Soto, Elizabeth M. Waite, Carrie Ross Welch...