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...survey by the Scotch Whisky Information Center in the U.S. concluded that single-malt fanciers are younger, more affluent and better educated than drinkers of blended Scotch. "People may be drinking less," says Peter Smith, the center's director, "but they are savoring more." Connoisseurs may eventually have more malts to savor. Several "silent" (mothballed) distilleries have lately sprung back to life. And next month Schenley < Affiliated Brands, an American subsidiary of Britain's United Distillers (Guinness), takes over U.S. distribution of six U.D.(G.)-owned malts. As a quick guide to the range of malt tastes, Schenley will sell...
Maverick billionaire H. Ross Perot doesn't buy that. "The '80s is the decade that we gave away our industrial lead and acted totally irresponsibly in wrecking some of our big corporations through leveraged buyouts," he says. "We felt affluent because we were living off borrowed money. We've got to clean up education, clean up the deficit, clean up the drugs, clean up the justice system, clean up industry. But right now it's like Lawrence Welk music: it's just wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. And nobody will fix it before it breaks...
...tits-and-zits teenpix that emulated Porky's. Cruise did time in a dim comedy, Losin' It (1982), about some lads who visit Tijuana to mislay their virginity; he played the sensitive one. From its plot synopsis, Risky Business (1983) promised more of the lame same. An affluent high school senior has an affair with a hooker (Rebecca de Mornay), dunks the family Porsche in Lake Michigan, turns his house into a brothel and still gets into Princeton. Sounds like the Reagan era in miniature. But there was wit in Paul Brickman's script and swank in his camera style...
Readers not familiar with Sinyavsky's style or the content of his life may have difficulty with the half-submerged facts. He was born into an affluent family in 1925. His father, who appears in the book as a brilliant though ineffectual figure out of a Chekhov play, was a revolutionary but not a Bolshevik. He was individualistic and something of an eccentric pragmatist. While waiting to be drafted during World War I, he practiced writing with his left hand in case he lost his right...
...success as a collaborator has brought him a comfortable life in an affluent suburb of Boston that enables him, as he says, "to buy raspberries instead of apples." He is currently compiling an anthology of American humor and mulling future celebrity subjects. He muses about Mikhail Gorbachev ("but somehow I think he's busy right now"), and, as a music lover who has recently resumed piano lessons, he thinks about Paul McCartney or Barbra Streisand. "Or Elvis, if he can find him," wisecracks Ben, 10, one of the Novaks' two sons. As for a return to the solo byline...