Word: martini
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Faculty Expenses: Your dreams of one day becoming a renowned Harvard professor and flying your private jet to weekly conferences in Dubai—free martini in hand—have been dashed. Now that FAS will no longer be spending $13 million on travel, meals, and entertainment for its most elite, you’ll just have to settle for eating a no-longer-“subsidized” meal at the Harvard Faculty Club when you become a professor...
Christie Mellor, who arguably launched the "martini mom" trend with her 2004 book Three-Martini Playdate, says she was just using cocktails as a figure of speech: "Anyone who read my book and actually understood the metaphorical nature of the title would know that I wasn't actually encouraging mommies to down a fifth of vodka at their toddler's play dates...
Unfortunately, says Mellor, who wrote a 2007 follow-up, The Three-Martini Family Vacation, some people took her literally. "I did hear from a few mommies who felt that I was, in fact, giving them 'permission' to party down with the cocktails while supervising a gang of 2-year-olds," she says. "I tried to explain in various interviews and columns that it's not about alcohol - it's about attitude. The addition of alcohol to your incredibly overscheduled, child-centered life wasn't going to suddenly make you a relaxed 'three-martini mom.' It was simply going to make...
...Apatow has become the most influential person making comedy in Hollywood. Partly it's that he's funny. But mostly it's that talent is far less important to him than hard work. We like to think of comedians as people who throw out quips from behind a martini (Dorothy Parker) or a bong (Tommy Chong). But if Horatio Alger had written tales about boys who labored tirelessly to fulfill their dream of making movies full of penis jokes, he would have written about Apatow. (See Joel Stein's videos on TIME.com...
...cynical that I wouldn't recommend reminding your grandmother, the next time you talk to her, that she's always the one who remembers the grandkids' birthdays or who recalls all the measurements in the family biscuit recipe (or, if you're from New England, the family martini recipe). Maybe such a little compliment could help Grandmother find her car keys the next time she has misplaced them...