Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DAVID KORESH WASN'T A REAL MESSIAH: HE COULDN'T TURN water into wine, and perhaps that's why he so valued his private stash of Scotch whisky. TIME has learned that three Branch Davidian cultists who left Ranch Apocalypse before the conflagration and surrendered were forced to leave by Koresh for getting into the would-be prophet's Scotch cache. At first Koresh punished the three -- Kevin Whitecliff, Brad Branch and Oliver Gyarfas -- by ordering them to bury a rotting corpse. Finally the Scotch-drinking cult leader had them thrown out. The trio are being held in jail...
...Lounge Singer on SNL and in a lot of his movies, Bill taught us that there was a magical, very American bliss to be achieved by failing in public and not realizing it. He was the soul of the showman in every CPA who's just had that third Scotch on the rocks. He was the spirit of unfazed, unfounded self-assurance. He was Karaoke before Karaoke was cool. He was conviviality masking contempt masking -- who knows what? He was . . . Everyguy...
...Pitches will sing their most popularnumber, "Scotch and Soda," and other jazz, swingand big band pieces characteristic of theirrepertoire...
...heroine gives as good as she gets. Other notables include a promising American tenor, Richard Leech, as Lucia's lover Edgardo, whose still raw but heroically enthusiastic singing portends a major voice; and reliable baritone Juan Pons as Lucia's bad-guy brother Enrico. Marcello Panni conducts with a Scotch snap...
Time is not on the side of innocent civilians caught in a bloody war zone. Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky said it best recently in The New York Times: "As you pour yourself a scotch, crush a roach, or check your watch, as your hand adjusts your tie, people die. In the towns with funny names, hit by bullets, caught in flames, by and large not knowing why, people...