Word: gins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year earner who had been paying roughly $8,000 a year in taxes will now pay about $500 more. Those earning $7,200 and under will pay marginally less. There will be heavier levies on luxuries such as liquor (48? more for a 26-oz. bottle of gin, to $6.24), cigarettes (12? more a pack, to 78?) and beer (2½? a pint, to 48?). Meanwhile, nearly $1.2 billion in subsidies will be spent in an effort to reduce retail food prices (especially bread and milk) by a targeted average of 6%. A new gift levy will put teeth...
Driven men are rarely considerate of others. With evident unhappiness, Blotner notes Faulkner's truly monumental drinking bouts, which friends and relatives learned to predict. Whenever he began reciting Shakespeare's poem "The Phoenix and the Turtle," a siege of gin and bourbon was imminent. The author's domestic life was a Faulknerian blend of the Gothic and the genteel. In 1918, his childhood sweetheart Estelle Oldham wed someone else. Faulkner waited. After ten years her marriage broke up, and Faulkner proposed. Their lifelong union was outwardly placid, Faulkner the proper country squire, Estelle his lady...
...love some of his numerous wives persist in feeling for him, even though they know that in a depraved world love is a sad mistake, can serve as the standard of condemnation for the world that makes it a mistake. "One may know by your Kiss, that your Gin is excellent," Mr. Peachum remarks, but his less capable daughter can only explain sorrowfully that she can't stop loving her husband--and that, coupled with the wit implicit in a good production, is what carries The Beggar's Opera beyond cynicism into anger...
...never see the card fall out--they are always in a hurry to get to dinners and the fabulous parties at Sigma Etc. that night, and the cards are always swept away by the same janitor--no one knows his name. They say his only amusement is to play gin with the queer old lady late at night...
...crowd has taken all the tables in sight and is beginning to spill out into the Swingers Lounge, a dining area where the more sedate can come to eat and watch the goings-on. Stewardesses and secretaries sit in forced conversation with one another, nursing their "sloe screws" (sloe gin and orange juice) and "thigh openers" (vodka gimlets) and feigning unawareness of the males all about. Behind them, hulking young men in double-knit suits or bright cardigan sweaters lounge against the wall, cradling bottles of beer and looking over the pickings. "I've never seen anything like this...