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...businessmen are fighting the post-luncheon haze by switching to such lighter-spirited European drinks as Lillet Orange (Lillet vermouth, soda, a slice of orange), the Americano (Campari, Cinzano dry vermouth, soda) or just plain Campari and soda. Sangria, a Spanish punch combining red or white wine with fruit syrup and seltzer, has made a host of converts at Manhattan's new Fountain Cafe in Central Park. And, though it really caught on in Paris only this summer, a surprising number of U.S. bartenders have already learned to whip up "un Kir": a mixture of dry white wine...
QUESTION: In Psycho, how did you do the shot beginning with Norman going up the stairs to his mother's room and ending with him carrying her body to the fruit cellar...
...Georgia's Rabun County were scandalized in 1944 when "Miss Lil," Judge Frank Smith's middle-aged spinster sister, wrote a harrowing, compassionate novel about a Negro girl who was made pregnant and abandoned by a no-account white man. Lillian Eugenia Smith's Strange Fruit was unfashionably out of step with its time and place. It ridiculed white supremacy, scathingly described the lynch-burning of a Negro wrongly suspected of murder, and was spattered with words that a Southern lady was not even supposed to know. Its prose won no literary prizes, but the book sold...
...Truth & Love." Lillian Smith was descended from slave-owning Georgia pioneers who fought the Seminoles; she was born and brought up in Jasper, Fla., which could have been Maxwell, the community that she anatomized in Strange Fruit. "We were small-town people who lived in a large, relaxed way," she recalled. After World War I, her father lost his prosperous mills and turpentine stills, moved back to north Georgia to open the state's first private summer camp for young ladies on Old Screamer Mountain outside Clayton...
...bluebloods scrambled to send her their daughters, and she used earnings from the camp to launch a magazine on Southern affairs, which had burgeoned to 100 pages with a subscription list of more than 10,000 when she abandoned it in 1946 for full-time writing. She followed Strange Fruit with Killers of the Dream (1949) and The Journey (1954), non-fiction works in which she analyzed the psychology of prejudice and described her own spiritual development...