Word: cognacs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sets' simple, though exactingly realistic, design coupled with the constant turning and motion of the actors take maximum advantage of the theater's comfortable environment. The props were perhaps too realistic: at the play's conclusion, a small group of alcohol-starved theater-goers rushed onstage to sample the cognac used in the final scene...
...audience for the play was postgraduate, middle-aged, and middle-browed--people interested in the 1930's and 1940's of their joyous youths devoid of all those sticky, irritating events occurring on the Continent. If this is your perspective, go and, once there, find out if the cognac is real...
...surroundings that they sank about $50,000 into decor alone, compared with about $1,500 spent on furnishing a typical dentist's office. The Beverly Hills dentists have also catered to the other senses; in addition to the soft carpets and music, they offer nervous patients sherry and cognac. More effective anesthetics are also available: a sign at the reception desk announces, "Sleep available for all dental procedures here...
...dinner party on Manhattan's fashionable East Side included all the chic refreshments. It began with perfectly mixed martinis, followed by a fine vintage French wine with the main course. With dessert, guests puffed the finest marijuana. Then, after coffee and cognac, the young hostess presented the evening's piece de resistance: a glass jar filled with a white powder. "Would anybody like a hit of coke?" she inquired casually, as if offering another drink. Indeed they would. Recalls one of the guests: "I was so wrecked by the time I left that I could barely find...
...hitched a ride there one day with a French pilot-one of a bunch with great joie devivre who never took off without their morning coffee and cognac. A big sign with a picture of Mickey Mouse holding a rifle stood in the center of town. It pointed left to Paris (12,672 kilometers) and right to Peking (2,971 kilometers). Past that sign came an unending stream of peasants trudging back to China after selling their farm produce in the markets. The French were convinced that the Chinese peasants were smuggling in weapons, but were unable to stop...