Word: malted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After generations of how-to books, the Dummies and Idiot's books seem to have caught on, thanks in part to the decade's obsession with faux connoisseurship--the need to know enough about Tuscan cooking or single-malt Scotch to not be an embarrassment at parties. But the blunt titles, with a wink at the reader, are a comforting reassurance that no one who picks up these books need apologize for having to start from scratch. "Would we have been able to laugh at ourselves enough to pick a book with the word idiot in the title...
...throughout the week. While much of the entertainment is free, tickets are required for such events as the rock concert in Princes Street Gardens, which will have a floodlighted Edinburgh Castle as its backdrop. Though the Scottish city can be cold in late December, wool sweaters, drams of single-malt whisky and drafts of Guinness will no doubt ward off the chill...
...tells a gathering at a Beverly Hills hotel that they're spoiled by cheap labor, cheap oil and cheap sex. He tells black churchgoers to go easy on the malt liquor and give up on the "running back who stabbed his wife." He shocks a group of cosseted movie moguls by calling their product schlock...
...juveniles were charged with transporting alcohol after being handed two 40-ounce malt liquors purchased for them by a 21-year-old that they had solicited to purchase for them...
...maybe eight youngish men in identical dark suits. They take a table and drape their suit jackets over their chairbacks so that their red suspenders can be displayed. Then they wave around thick cigars as they shout at each other at trading-pit volume about what brand of single-malt Scotch they prefer...