Word: minting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know." We came to the back of Lenin's tomb, where we found an unguarded drain pipe leading to the roof. I gave Mike a boost and we shimmied up. Up top the Politburo folks were passing out mint juleps and trying to get the Kentucky Derby on a transistor radio...
...Orleans they have a mechanism called Bourbon Street, designed to accomplish this separation with maximum efficiency. Tourists seethe up and down bourbon Street like muddy water in a bayou, clutching takeaway mint juleps and Hurricanes (a vile and overpriced cocktail sold only to tourists) in big paper cups. Fast talking slicks in white tuxedoes, looking like Elvis Presley's manager admitting Priscilla's age at a press conference, wait outside strip joints, holding the doors open for tantalizing glimpses of the flesh within On the sidewalks young entrepreneurs hawk shoeshines, "SHIT HAPPENS-on Bourbon St." sweatshirts, voodoo masks, even chances...
Travesty, yes. Mustache, no. Colorizing leaves the original black-and- white prints unmolested. (In fact, they are rendered in mint condition before colorizing begins, which is why some film archivists like the idea.) Only a tape of the film is colorized. Nothing is altered. Colorization is not like painting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. It is like painting a mustache on cheap prints of the Mona Lisa. The original remains in the Louvre, pristine. Copies of the original, sans mustache, remain readily available. Where is the loss? What is the damage...
Atlanta, Houston and New Orleans probably have an inside track because the party would like to renew its old ties with the South. Atlanta pitched itself as the birthplace of the "New South," mixing a ride on the city's modern subway with mint juleps, barbecue and country music in an antebellum mansion at Stone Mountain. Atlanta turned Native Son Jimmy Carter, not the most popular figure in the Democratic Party, into an asset. The highlight of the trip turned out to be a VIP tour of the Carter Presidential Center, after which the former President treated the committee...
...mint will offer an additional 152,000 oz. this week and 125,000 oz. every week after that. "We'll keep these coins coming as long as there's demand," says Dix. "We're working 24 hours, seven days a week." Unlike gold commemorative coins issued by the Government, which are limited editions, there is no ceiling on the number of Eagles that can be produced...