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...would make a great script for a movie or TV mini-series: company founder's teenage grandson rebels against going into family liquor business and vows instead to carve out his own career as a show-biz tycoon. But the movies and plays he produces, partly with his share of the family wealth, all bomb; he returns, chastened, to the place being held for him in the family firm. There he unexpectedly shows a fair executive talent and succeeds in keeping an already giant company growing, largely by diversifying beyond whiskeymaking. But he remains screenstruck, and as he approaches...
...darkest corners of their homes were the machete-armed gangs of Hutu men on a wild killing spree, often drunk and dressed in startling fashions looted from abandoned stores and houses of the dead. Swaggering Hutu men and boys paraded through the city, loaded with weapons and cheap liquor. Many of the 20,000 victims died simply because they were Tutsis. "More and more of the civilian population armed with machetes are ruling the streets," said Philippe Gaillard, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Kigali. "The army can't control them...
...listened to his band. Watson was his characteristic self on this tune, looking like a sly serpent when he blew into his golden saxophone and smiled deviously. He slowly gyrated in his Armani suit as he played, moving his enormous aerodyamic Afro, like something from a Schlitz malt liquor ad. When his solo shot up to the high end breathlessly, it was easy to see why he is heralded as on of the best saxophonists of his generation. When the piano's turn came, he built up a solo that climaxed with two-fisted fullkeyboard runs, booming bass octaves...
...magazine's "Issues" section, Singel chronicles one Native American's campaign against Old Crazy Horse Malt Liquor...
...malt liquor was named Pope John Paul of Malcolm X," he says, "it would be off the shelf...