Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Picture this: at General Cinema's Premium theater in suburban Chicago, the $15 luxury cinematic experience starts with valet parking. After the concierge escorts you to a leather recliner, a waiter is on hand to mix up a martini and serve "previews" like shrimp cocktail and "feature presentations" (get it?) like prime rib. "It's like watching a movie with all the comforts of home but better service," says Mark Kanter, a regular at the luxury venue...
Here's a quick way to thin the crowd at your next cocktail party: launch into the theory of three steps and a stumble. Those who sense an imminent tale of baby's first steps will flee first. You'll lose the rest when they realize that you're talking about a bear-market harbinger that worked in the '80s. For this is a new age, and if anything is deadlier than a kid story among adults, it's a cautionary tale of how the stock market behaved in the pre-Crash, pre-Internet, it-may-as-well-be-prehistoric...
...became a vegan. One night in 1996, he and some Straight Edge mates drove by a McDonald's still under construction. "We joked and said it would be neat if we burned it down," he says. And so they did, going in with gasoline cans. "I had a Molotov cocktail. I waited until everyone was out in the car. I threw...
...that the sharp decline in deaths from AIDS that began two years ago, occasioned by powerful new drugs, has been cut in half. Some patients have struggled to get access to the drugs; others haven?t maintained the rigorous discipline required to maintain complicated daily dosing schedules of a cocktail of different pharmaceuticals; and even in many cases where the drugs have been properly administered, the virus often has proved more resilient than the medicine. AIDS researchers, doctors and activists gathered Monday in Atlanta for the National HIV Prevention Conference hoping that those statistics will help them challenge the complacency...
...doozy, a 13-year-old girl with two personalities. One has a morbid fear of water; the other insists that she is a survivor of the mythic deluge that engulfed continental Atlantis millenniums before humans got around to organizing memory into history. Order a brain scan or a cocktail of antipsychotics? Neither choice is likely, not because the gorgon at the HMO refuses to sign off on the procedures but because Dr. Perlman's clinic for the interestingly unhinged is located in low-tech London at the beginning of the 20th century...