Word: guttings
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Vultaggio found his next business, iced tea, through his most trusted adviser: his gut. On a frigid February day in 1990, a Snapple delivery truck interrupted his sales pitch with a lower Manhattan store owner. "I'm knocking myself out trying to get a five-case order of beer, and this guy is taking 100 iced teas," Vultaggio says. "What am I doin'? I said, I gotta go into the tea business." That was his million-dollar focus group. "Yeah, I was focusing," he says. "Wow, that...
...Part I and Robin Hood: Men in Tights)--virtually the entire canon, minus The Producers. Most of those are extensions of the genre parodies Brooks and other early-TV geniuses wrote for Sid Caesar. The gags are hit-and-miss, but when they hit, you feel them in your gut. And each film has at least one shining moment, whether it be flatulent cowboys or synchronized-swimming nuns. A big disappointment: no Brooks commentaries. The collection is incomplete without a juicy vat of pinwheeling ad libs from the foremost tummler--sorry, raconteur--of our time...
...Friday night in New Hampshire’s Whittemore Center; but when Harvard skated off the ice, the mood was much more buoyant than it had been in the previous three years. In its last three trips to the NCAA tournament, the Crimson had bowed out in gut-wrenching fashion in the national championship game. This season, the No. 8 Harvard squad made its mark by winning the ECAC championship in upset fashion, but were overmatched against the Wildcats on Friday. “I’m very proud of our players,” Crimson coach Katey Stone...
...course, there will be the whispers that the Crimson has been bounced in four consecutive first rounds, including a gut-wrenching, come-from-behind loss to Maine two years ago in Albany...
...since last Friday, in a series of meetings in New York among the veto-wielding "permanent five" members of the Security Council-the U.S., Great Britain, France, Russia and China-the Russians have pushed for changes in the French-British draft that are, one U.S. official complains, "designed to gut the proposed statement." In particular, one source says, Russia is opposing setting a short deadline for Iran?s compliance and is trying to move the issue out of the Security Council and back to the less potent IAEA board...