Word: gins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louis Armstrong's solo on Big Butter and Egg Man (1926) as if it were a song of Mozart's. In fact, he writes, "not even a Mozart or a Schubert composed anything more natural and simply inspired." Blues Singer Bessie Smith's laments of a gin-soaked life might as well be lieder sung by Lotte Lehmann for the way Schuller praises their "fusion of technical perfection with a profound depth of expression...
...began with leaving a gold pencil at a gin game," Ben Sack tells it. Sack is a heavy-set, determined man. A light grey business suit complements his wavy, greying hair. Black cameo cufflinks are the only pieces of ostentation he allows himself. His no-nonsense manner at first appears belligerent. The intimacy of his conversation, however, soon betrays his grim seriousness. "When I went back next day to get the pencil," he continues, "a young boy whose father owned a movie chain asked me if I would like to make an investment in a theatre he was building." Sack...
...character development: Huston piles close-ups of Bogart and Hepburn on top of one another, all impeccably framed by Cardiff, all suggesting nothing more than bovine contentment. Ultimately, the comic timing of Huston and his actors save The African Queen from tedium: Hepburn's superb reactions to Bogart's gin-swilling equal Bogart's own anguish at watching her dispose of it, bottle by bottle. Lines in the printed script easily passed-by become audience-stoppers: Bogart's apology for his growling stomach ("There ain't a thing I can do about it.") or his shivering disgust of leeches ("Anythin...
...paring administrative overhead and closing two of the company's 16 bottling plants, he cut $1,500,000 a year from operating costs. To pep up promotion, he hired two new ad agencies for soft drinks; he allocated more money to plug such profitable sidelines as Canada Dry gin and vodka and Johnnie Walker scotch, which the company distributes in the U.S. In came four outsiders and out went four of the company's 16 vice presidents. "I didn't raid Colgate, or anything like that," says Mahoney. "George Neumann [vice president for planning] is the only...
...drinks generally provide a clue to the changing public palate, and today's In concoctions indicate a trend toward blandness: the Dirty Mother (brandy and Kahlua, a liqueur that tastes like sweetened coffee), the Half-and-Half (half Scotch and half milk or cream), the My Diane (gin and cordials with orange juice and coconut milk) and such relatively innocuous favorites as Dubonnet on the rocks and Campari and soda. Today a bar must carry 50% more brands and be prepared to make a 100% greater assortment of drinks than ten years...