Word: fizz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brooklyn Academy of Music, are a witches' brew of cabaret, silent-movie slapstick, Expressionist psychodrama, Japanese theater, lounge lizardry and high-tech wizardry. What keeps it bubbling is a melodic succession of wheezy parlor waltzes, barroom blues, moon-June pop and ersatz Kurt Weill. What gives it fizz is gallows humor, antiwar mockery, sweet sentiment and an inventiveness that more than honors the imperative laid down years ago by Sergei Diaghilev to Jean Cocteau: "Astonish...
Half a cup of instant coffee. Then a cigarette. Then, let's see, yeah, here's half a can of Coke left on the table, room temperature, no more fizz. Slug of Coke, swallow of whiskey, same again. Breakfast...
...Columbus; Letting Go; When She Was Good -- he got into trouble outside his novels. He was accused of being a self-hating Jew, of having had an unnatural relationship with his baseball glove, of betraying friends. The conventional novel proved too damned intimate; Roth's talent for making life fizz up on the page was too convincing for comfort. Since then, he $ has developed a feisty art of self-defense -- and the defense never rests...
FOOD: Yuppiedom loses its fizz...
...chic restaurants and athletic clubs, health-conscious Americans guzzled so much Perrier bottled mineral water in the 1980s that it became the drink of the decade. Some of the fizz may go out of Perrier's $450 million annual sales with word last week that the firm's U.S. distributor is recalling its entire inventory from store shelves nationwide because laboratory tests found benzene in a small number of bottles...