Word: bourbonized
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...judges pair off in more than judicial philosophy. According to one person who knows them both, Lee, 44, is a country boy who drinks bourbon, coaches Little League and says he is descended from Robert E. Lee; Scott, 64, is a city boy who favors Scotch, plays golf and reads...
...photographer Carbone; he prances through his part like a Middle European cockatoo. Kenneth Ryan excels himself as Alan B. Lebow, a hip filmmaker; Jeremy Geidt is startling as Pittsburgh, the Black saxophonist cum hustler--he uses a gurgling accent that sounds like the rapid pour of a bottle of bourbon. Thomas Derrah takes off brilliantly with a comic interpolation of Richard III--it is this sort of magical appearance of the impossible that makes Lulu so consistently interesting and amusing. Tony Shalhoub is chilling in his flat, langourous portrayal of a pimp, although not as chilling as Harry Murphy...
...Yorkers when they're through looking at the cartoons, inferring polite, understated meanings with a precise style and weightless control. But one knows his Alaska is an idealized one to read about in front of the fire on a cold Greenwich, Conn. night accompanied by 12-year-old bourbon. One knows his flawless Alaska book, while making lyrical, profound reading, misses much of Alaska, for few there give a damn about art, and fewer still have any particular use for politeness...
...action." But he insisted that accepting the money was "strictly playacting" because he never intended to do anything in return. He complained: "I was set up from the word go." In one meeting with the sheik's intermediary, Myers said, "I was intoxicated. I was drinking FBI bourbon." Myers, a former longshoreman, contended that he was not used to hard liquor. Turning bitter, he charged that "I was not given a fair trial" by the House, and accused the members of "lynching" him. Protesting that "I know now what it feels like to sit on death row," Myers warned...
...prawns with Jimmy Carter's mother. There was no such forbearance when she remembered Lillian's 82nd birthday a few days later. Phyllis delivered a picture of Baby Lincoln George-Tyler Brown, born in June; a Steuben glass apple; and some of those irresistible chocolate-covered Kentucky bourbon balls...