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acid test test of genuineness for gold; not destructive of genuine metal. [Assaying: Brewer Dictionary, 7] See : Genuineness How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For those younger readers who don't know what we're
talking about, here's the AP's description of this national
treasure: "With a jug of LSD-laced juice in the refrigerator,
clean-cut Kesey pals known as the Merry Pranksters on board and Neal
Cassady, the driver in Jack Kerouac's On the Road at the wheel, the
bus crossed the country from California to New York"--a journey
made famous in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968). The movie version of ``Perfume'' will put that
proposition to the acid test (in America anyway; it's already
grossed nearly $100 million overseas). The acid test is simply one question: "Absent government
interference, would the market support ethanol? |
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