Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gin Game. In this first work by Playwright D.L. Coburn, Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn feint and parry with a sparkling professional finesse polished through decade after decade after decade...
...convinced that it is far more profound than chess. Another board-and-counter game, Othello, sells well enough to indicate that its termites are nesting. Master Mind, a code-breaking game devised by an Israeli cryptanalyst, has its own fanatics. From Rumanian Jews in Israel comes a kind of gin rummy played with tiles, variously called Rummi-brick and Rummikub; one manufacturer in Korea has picked up the game and expects to ship 100,000 by the year's end to sell at up to $40 a set. And the Scrabble Crossword Game, thought to be a children...
...through the wilderness-"doing an honest day's scouting." As a director of a group of the state's local sports clubs, he works to promote environmental legislation. He marvels, "When you look at a virgin forest after it rains, water runs through the streams clear as gin." Adds Shreve: "I hope and pray my son can enjoy the outdoors the way I have and live as a free person. This may be one of the last places he might do that...
...Carre knows it very well, indeed. The Honourable Schoolboy showcases le Carre in top writing form, recreating the steamy, fetid cities of Indochina and the chummy, gin-soaked air of a British club with genuine flair. Moreover, his marvelous ear for dialogue has developed an unprecedented sharpness: unlike the characters in his previous books, the Americans in The Honourable Schoolboy not only speak differently from the British, but each character boasts a subtle regional accent, as well. No one sounds like Perry Mason, either--which alone sets the book apart from a shelf-full of other British espionage tales...
Meantime, Carter has stirred the martini lovers, admittedly depleted since the days of Franklin Roosevelt, a two-before-dinner man whose evening blending (4 parts gin, 1 part vermouth) was a dramatic triumph...