Word: scotch
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...unsympathetic harpy--and anyway, sexual harassment doesn't have the crackle that it had back in the days of, say, Michael Crichton's Disclosure. The pleasure of Bing's novel lies in his masterful, merciless evocation of the executive milieu--the lunches, the banter, the petty slights, the Scotch-soaked male bonding. "Keep in mind, please, that large emotions and reactions are alien to a true corporate workplace environment," Bing urges us. "A great business milieu is like creme brulee, with the tasty custard down below and a fine glazed topping up above, sweet and hard, that obscures what...
...surveyed my efforts. In the fireplace, a fan whirred, fluttering the sheets of gold Mylar and red and blue cellophane that I had scotch-taped to its screen. Although I had cut the cellophane and Mylar to approximate flames, the construction looked like nothing so much as a fan with sheets of Mylar and cellophane taped to it. I leaned forward and turned the fan to high; the cellophane fluttered more vigorously...
...lack imagination,” I said, tacking down a loose edge of the gold Mylar with some more scotch tape. He rolled his eyes...
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...prose in her memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers. The book brings the world of professional gambling to life, offering a perceptive account of growing up as well as gambling. Lederer’s childhood includes an English professor father, a mother hooked on crossword puzzles, solitaire, and scotch and two older siblings who rob their mother’s purse. All gamblers and all fiercely competitive, the family becomes split after the kids go to college and the parents divorce. It is in the central hub of American gambling—Las Vegas—that the family...