Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whenever she had to fall onstage, always landed near a trap door so that a stagehand could sneak her a glass of beer. In the Metropolitan Opera's current production of Electra, Birgit Nilsson's search for Agamemnon's ax is really a quest for a ginger ale stashed under a rock...
Bottled soft drinks are so commonly accepted that the Japanese substitute them for barley water as warm-weather refreshers, upper-caste Indians serve them at wedding receptions, and Middle East businessmen offer them to visitors as an alternative to Turkish coffee. Europeans mix their whisky with ginger ale or lemon-lime. White Rhodesians have a fad on for brandy and Coke. Zambian copper-belt workers, who once paid threepence for a home-brewed raspberry drink, now pay sixpence for "sophisticated" sodas. Everywhere, increasing ownership of refrigerators has lifted soft-drink sales. In Hong Kong, U.S. brands hold...
...strikes Italian designers like Emilio Pucci as quintessentially American. His trademark is an extravagantly Californian style: exuberant use of chiffon, bold sun colors such as orange and yellow, the revival of striking art nouveau prints. His magnificent "at home" wear this season includes $1,055 bead-encrusted beige-and-ginger-striped pajamas and a $1,700 gold-metallic chiffon burnoose with a jeweled...
...SADDEST SUMMER OF SAMUEL S, by J. P. Donleavy. Once again Black Humorist Donleavy (Ginger Man) proves that he can make something of nothing-in this case a non-hero who has worn out his Viennese psychiatrist and baffled a predatory countess and a girl tourist in his Kafkaesque progress to nothingness...
...Donleavy, author of "The Ginger Man," "A Singular Man," and "The Summer of Samuel S.," will read from his recent work at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House JCR. Tickets available at the Coop and at the door...