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Word: amaretto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also closing in on ubiquity. Janowitz has appeared in magazine advertisements for Amaretto and Rose's Lime Juice. Her face pops up with increasing frequency in newspapers and magazines, and she has given the MTV generation its first performance-writer by making videotapes to plug Slaves as well as Cannibal. The latter is the story of a well-read tribal chief who becomes the toast of the asphalt jungle and accidentally eats his wife at a barbecue. Janowitz has a catchy style and achieves her satiric effects with a sly Valley Girl delivery. Slaves cartoons the downtown-Manhattan art scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yuppie Lit: Publicize or Perish | 10/19/1987 | See Source »

Watermelon and blue-raspberry popcorn, chocolate amaretto and hazelnut gelato are just some of the goodies available at a new retail food store in Harvard Square...

Author: By Elsa C. Arnett, | Title: New Shop Boasts Blue-Rasberry Popcorn | 12/16/1986 | See Source »

...oddity was that five of the jurors were under 24, all singles who had been living at home with their parents, and they naturally formed a social group. They invented a cocktail they called the "Pontiac" (Amaretto and soda with a twist of lime). They held occasional mock trials at which one of them proved adept at imitating the lawyers involved in the case. On April Fools' Day, Linda Tumino, 21, hid in the back of the sheriffs bus and caused a momentary panic among the deputies when they found themselves missing one juror. "All it was was party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Eight Months to a Verdict | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

...secretary's most embarrassing moment? His overwrought, 33-page denial of a report in 1978 that White House Aide Hamilton Jordan had spit his Amaretto-and-cream at a woman in a Georgetown bar. Says Powell: "I should have handled that better. At least I should have typed it single space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Some closing words from Jody | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

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