Word: gins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Long before oil started to become as costly as gin, before the quest for "alternate energy sources" became the moral equivalent of war and before he started writing this week's cover story on "The Cooling of America," TIME Contributor Jack Skow bought his first woodburning stove. A city boy who now lives in rural New London, N.H. (pop. 2,943), Skow offers a modest explanation for his extraordinary foresight. "I was one of the first in town to get a wood stove, in 1973, because I went broke from electric heating bills." Since then, Skow has spent much...
...this rate the gin martini may be embraced next by the Georgia White House. That's O.K. There is a body of opinion that the world worked better before men took to mineral water...
...would publish a quarterly On-Campus Review to help concerned administrators keep up to date on consumption. To cut down on drunken driving, the University of Massachusetts encourages students to use a free Saturday night bus service, dubbed "the drunk run," which shuttles back and forth between local gin mills and the UMASS campus in Amherst. Dartmouth is considering a similar shuttle...
...consequence of the padding is the kind of literal dramaturgy that obliterated The Scarlet Letter last season. Unlike the British creators of The Glittering Prizes or I, Claudius, PBS gives its audience little credit for sophistication. In The Sorrows of Gin, the first and worst of the Cheevers, the warring suburban couple (Edward Herrmann and Sigourney Weaver) can hardly be seen for all the shots of gin bottles. Yet Gin is not about alcoholism; like Henry James' What Maisie Knew, it is about a child who unwittingly discovers the self-deceptions of the adults...
...only 12 p.m.--three more hours until the "St. Patrick" is scheduled to come down to earth. Journalists are already populating the bar, slugging down the gin and tonics a little too quickly. Most of us are in the "Cloud 9" restaurant, and the three plump waitresses are going mildly mad. In the booth next door, a cameraman for Channel 3 is flashing black pin-stripes and a white bowler. There is a reporter for the Manchester Guardian who asks us if Harvard has started accepting women. There are reporters everywhere, lining the halls, careening into the state police...