Word: martini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three-martini lunch is a thing of the past," Winsten said, citing a "much greater social conscience in American business" in recent years...
...leading lady in the nose. The show's Adelaide, Vivian Blaine, remembers him more fondly: "A lovable, raucous man with a deliciously evil laugh." Ever restless, he'd catch a few hours' sleep, start his composing (on a silent piano) at 4 a.m. and be ready for a martini at 8 a.m. "After all," says Sullivan, with whom Loesser fell in love when she sang the female lead in Most Happy Fella, "it was lunchtime...
...many reports he had to turn out. "This is a very memo-driven company," he observed. Columbia graduate student Sallie Binnie, who regularly put in 11-hour days in our business office, did not expect the pace to be quite so hectic. "I kept waiting for that three-martini lunch," she says. "But it never showed...
...these people making noise outside? Agitators? Pass me another martini, if you will...
Some numbers, to be sure, are traditional. Fadeev does two swooping solos to classical music in billowing black blouses, both with back flips and swanlike dying falls. Martini and Underhill electrify the audience with a smoldering duet to Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers. Even the conventional pieces are done as serious art and athletics, far more demanding than in other ice shows and never lapsing into cuteness...