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...downtown Rangoon, the effects of economic stagnation are easy to spot. Unfinished office and apartment blocks loom over the skyline like Olympian tombstones. With most international companies long departed, billboards advertise mostly local products, such as Spirulina ("Beer That Makes You Young Forever"), or nothing at all. Like in a city at war, fruit and vegetables are cultivated in the grounds of public buildings. Part of the front lawn of the seldom-visited Drug Elimination Museum, built to whitewash the regime's dubious antinarcotics record, has been turned into a pomelo orchard. Power shortages still plague the capital, as they...
...game but perhaps a little too drunk to play it well. Though Garner was able to use one hand to unsnap her bra and the other to snap a nice pictorial record for her scrapbook, she lost her digital camera right next to her self-respect somewhere in the beer sodden recesses of the Fox basement. But on the bright side, Garner can now order prints of herself from the Kodak website...
...elders, Imai wasn't afraid to speak up, arguing his antiwar stance with the conviction of a veteran activist. Interviewed by TIME that day, Imai spoke of his dreams: studying in England, and becoming a journalist in order to give voice to the weak. Then, as the beer flowed more freely and the opinions grew rowdier, Imai said he had to get home, and disappeared into the sub-zero night...
Radish split in 1998, and Kweller has recovered admirably. He is now on his second solo album, On My Way, which happens to be his first as a legal, beer-drinking adult. On My Way has some impressive moments, largely because it seems to care so little about being impressive. It feels like a bunch of songs Kweller put together casually and recorded impeccably...
There’s the prerequisite pizza from ’Nochs and a healthy supply of beer, in both the root and alcoholic varieties. The recliner and every spot on the futons are claimed, forcing a few people to employ less-than-comfortable folding chairs. A brief discussion ensues about the use of the “lucky chair,” a white folding chair covered with signatures commemorating a come-from-behind Sox playoff win. Apparently, the chair only works when all of the roommates are present, since the Sox lost the time the chair made...