Word: cognacs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Primal Gloom. He can drink almost anyone under the table too. When Burton's emotional life was particularly eruptive one day earlier this month, he drank half a gallon of cognac, being careful not to let it interfere with his work before the cameras in a new picture called The VIPs. His heroes are Scofield, Olivier, Gielgud, Alec Guinness?and a Lancastrian he once met who could down twelve pints of beer while Big Ben was announcing midnight. "I am one of the few people I know," says Burton, "who drinks only when he works." And this is true. Between...
...chandeliered Federal Room. To make things merrier, there were baskets filled with miniature Scotch and bourbon bottles on each table; there was sherry in and with the soup, a '59 Pouilly-Fuisse with the fish, champagne with the dessert (which was soaked in Cherry Heering). and cognac with the coffee. The guests included not only the Washington regulars-like Mike Mansfield and Hubert Humphrey-but a large assortment of out-of-towners. Among those present was the New York Yankees' outfielder Mickey Mantle, happily admitting: "I paid the thousand...
Scotch consumption in France was held down by miniscule import quotas until 1960. But in 1961 the French imported 841,459 gal., and by the end of this year will have drunk considerably more. Cognac, however, is not on the rocks: during the same period its worldwide sales jumped from about 9 million to some 13 million bottles...
...Scotch is the chic drink. Françoise Sagan's heroes and heroines would not be caught dead or in bed drinking cognac. When they ask for their Scotch by brand, most Frenchmen specify Ballanteen, Egg et Egg or Black et Huit. But mostly it's just "Donnez-moi un baby"-half a shot of Scotch...
Straight from the Shoulder. The cheering audience called the three soloists, Conductor Colin Davis and Composer Britten back for repeated bows. Relaxing backstage with a leather-bound flask of cognac in hand, Composer Britten explained that he had not conducted the score himself because he was suffering from the mysterious psychogenic shoulder disorder that "happens to me only after I've finished a big work." And the Mass, he might have added, is one of the biggest works of his career. "It has been boiling up inside me for years," said Britten. "I had to find a language simple...