Word: martini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spots at the NCAA tournament in March also appeal to Bennett and if he can attain these two goals, "I'll probably train more seriously and try out for the Olympic trials" to be held in June. The Martini-Rossi international tourney in April will also be a major test for Bennett...
...OBJECTIVE STATEMENT Mitchell makes most prominent is suburban dreariness. Several songs are explicit narratives of that dish-water despair, there's-no-olive-in-my-martini madness. In "Harry's House/Centerpiece" Mitchell interposes a jazzy arrangement of a 1950s love tune, "Baby, you're my centerpiece," with a desolate vision...
...aphrodisiacs. Ogden Nash ("Parsley/Is garsley") to the contrary, the indispensable parsleyan garnish, Petroselinum crispum, has been prized as a guarantor of virility since at least the 1st century. (Its seeds also enjoy fame as a baldness cure.) Without herbs, the world would not have that honored amorific, the martini. Coriander seed is not only used as a spicy seasoning but is also reputed to be an erotic stimulant and is used to flavor gin. And Artemisia, or wormwood, is an essential ingredient of vermouth. Martinis may not have been served at King Arthur's court, but wormwood undoubtedly found...
...Brennan tells it, he began drinking seriously in Washington in 1950 while representing Ford. Later, he maintained liaison for Ford at the United Nations, where he put in hours at the delegates' bar, "followed by long martini lunches." Brennan was promoted to higher posts in The Netherlands -which involved more social drinking -Austria, where he started drinking alone, and finally Switzerland. When he at last sought help, Brennan says, he was met in a Zurich hotel room by higher Ford officials who persuaded him-"over a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label"-to take early retirement...
...puffs through eight to ten pipeloads of tobacco a day and worries about it. He asks for two olives in his martini. Swimming is his favorite sport, early morning the best time of his day, and a Sunday-afternoon round of golf is his special weekly...