Word: bourbonized
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...Conn., for a midnight meeting with Conoco Chairman Ralph Bailey in that company's boardroom rotunda. Just after 1 a.m. the two weary, rumpled chief executives settled final details, sealed the agreement with a handshake and retired to Bailey's office for a round of Scotch and bourbon. Du Pont was paying some $7 billion in cash and stock for Conoco. The union could form the seventh largest industrial enterprise in the U.S., ranking just behind the Ford Motor...
...invited the three other top congressional tax writers-Rostenkowski, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Democrat Russell Long of Louisiana and House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Republican Barber Conable of New York-to an intimate luncheon in an ornate hideaway office next to the Senate chamber long favored for bourbon and branch-water sessions. Democrats and Republicans often meet to iron out differences in legislation already passed. Rarely, however, do they assemble to work out joint legislation in advance of any vote, as they did last week...
Bacall is a tigress of a performer, and she stalks through the musical like a supremely sophisticated lady who would never dream of sheathing her claws. From that growly, smoky voice, seemingly filtered through bourbon and cigarettes, to the lightning stride and the imperiously tossed head, she is a creature of animal grace and jungle danger. Bacallelujah...
...García Lorca wrote The Ballad of the Spanish Civil Guard in 1924, twelve years before he was murdered by Franco sympathizers at the beginning of the Civil War, the paramilitary Guardia Civil was already a widely feared institution in Spain. Since its formation in 1844 during the Bourbon monarchy, the corps had been the efficient internal security force of the central government in Madrid. Under Franco, it became part of the dictatorship's apparatus of repression. For many Spaniards, the gray-green uniform and the black patent-leather cap remain symbols of reaction and oppression. Thus hardly...
Spaniards did not always have such confidence in Juan Carlos, a direct descendant of the Bourbon King Louis XIV and Queen Victoria. Once described as "the son Franco never had," Juan Carlos had been hand-picked by the Generalissimo as his heir for a modern Spain. With foresight Franco had instructed the future King that "you will have to manage in another way than I do." Yet, despite a reputation for libertarian ideals, Juan Carlos raised few expectations when he became King at age 37, two days after Franco's death. Indeed, political wags cynically dubbed the shy Commander...