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...himself and his company, Grossman has introduced radical changes in Watney's all-too-quaint pubs, launched into discotheques at home, capitalized on the growing popularity of English-style pubs abroad. The innovations have tapped surging profits: while most of the industry is as tepid as its brew, Watney's last month reported a 19% jump in earnings for the first half of fiscal 1967, to $15 million...
...many beauty spots," lives in an unnamed city with seven men -Bill, Kevin, Edward, Hubert, Henry, Clem and Dan. When they are not taking showers with Snow White or making love to her, they keep busy washing buildings, carrying money to the vault and tending vats in which they brew Chinese baby food. The men are not dwarfs, but might as well be. Snow White says tartly: "The seven of them only add up to the equivalent of two real men." About all that they have in common, except Snow White of course, is the curious fact that each...
...studio audience rollicked to that line, but the lady in Nebraska rose from her chair, muttering, "That's not so funny, McGee!" With that, she swept into the kitchen to brew a pot of coffee. And no doubt to ponder the mysterious equations of show business that have enabled her son John to become the nation's midnight idol by telling silly jokes like that...
...four movements are labelled, respectively, "Emerson," "Hawthrone." "The Alcotts," and "Thoreau." In "Hawthorne" Ives unleashes all his powers of satire as he incorporates Debussy-like ragtime, fragments of Protestant hymns, and purposely misharmonized American bombast -- "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," for example--into an acid brew that recalls the "This Scherzo Is a Joke" movement of the Piano Trio. Mendelssohn and the Beethoven Fifth make their appearance in "The Alcotts," a merciless parody of all the cliches of nineteenth-century musical sentimentality. Of the four, the "Thoreau" movement is the kindest to its namesake. Its big surprise...
...Band's characteristic energy. Here the group pared itself down even further, metamorphosing into a chamber wind ensemble. Unlike some other musical organizations, the Band can afford to do this, blessed as it is with a plethora of excellent soloists. In their hands the suite was a seductive brew of biting sarcasm and nostalgia - echt...