Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gershengorn cites a real change in the court system since her first days as a public defender. At that time, she says, there was a strong prevailing macho ethic. "We fight tough, we drink tough, we are tough," is how she describes the credo of the male lawyers and judges who once dominated courthouses across the state...
...Jordan, the world of basketball is a world without bounds. He gyrates, levitates and often dominates. Certainly he fascinates. In arenas around the country, food and drink go unsold because fans refuse to leave their seats for fear of missing a spectacular Jordan move to tell their grandchildren about. Bulls assistant coach Phil Jackson admits that the Jordan Freeze affects seasoned veterans. "Even I get caught up in Michael's show," he says. "I try not to, but sometimes I just sit back and enjoy...
LEAST-NEEDED NEW PRODUCT Take mineral water from Mendocino, Calif., turn it over to chef John Ash, and be prepared for Truffle Water, a sourish-smelling carbonated drink that suggests spoiled milk, sulfur and stale beer. The question is not how he thought...
Some arrangements involve both on-screen and postproduction promotional efforts. Cans of Diet Coke, for instance, discreetly appeared in Walt Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Both Disney and Coke benefited again when the company conducted a TV ad campaign featuring the sultry Jessica Rabbit crooning for the diet drink...
...season to eat and drink and -- above all -- shop. For most Americans, the Christmas buying frenzy is a once-a-year splurge. But for hundreds of thousands of men and women, the holidays are a special torment, a brutal reminder of a day-in, day-out compulsion. Call them shopaholics. Gayle, 48, a Chicago secretary who declared bankruptcy last summer after running up debts of $32,000, is not faring well this Christmas. She is lavishing gifts on friends and family -- and on herself too. Says she, wearily: "I have not been able to control myself...