Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clear that an addiction to piloting small airplanes was overwhelming any commitment to real study. At 19 he persuaded his father to let him deliver a Land Rover from London to a religious hospital in Jordan. He made the trip steering with one hand and brandishing a bottle of Scotch in the other...
...raining in Sydney, Australia, and Franklin Graham is nervous. Once he might have slugged back a Scotch; now a diet Coke will have to do. It is always tough being a stand-in, and worse still if you're substituting for a legend. In fact, when illness forced his father out of this series of revival meetings, the organizing committee in Sydney simply dissolved itself. Ultimately another group decided to take a chance on Franklin but moved the revival from a downtown venue that could have held 50,000 people to an open, grass amphitheater--no seats, just turf--with...
...this year, Time Present, Time Past seems unlikely to jump-start a Bradley steamroller. Ever the gentleman, he writes about his Senate colleagues so blandly that even North Carolina's Jesse Helms, a bitter ideological foe, gets praised for being "courtly." Bradley is fiercely proud of his German and Scotch-Irish forebears, but in his tepid prose they come across as proto-suburbanites rather than daring pioneers...
Prairie Reunion by Barbara J. Scot (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 230 pages; $21) is a bittersweet homecoming story tracing the author's return in middle age to the puritannical farming community where she grew up. In Scotch Grove, Iowa, she tries to piece together the puzzle of her mother's loving stoicism in the face of her father's humiliating desertion and subsequent suicide. Structured as a patchwork of conversations, childhood recollections and lyrical encounters with the land, Scot's quietly earnest quest yields her valuable understanding of her mother's reticence and a deeper appreciation of the mysteries of family...
...issue and a circulation of 50,000: average age, 43; median income, $71,000. Like other high-end offerings, its glossy editions feature gorgeous photography, closeups of sweaty petals and buxom peonies, landscapes that cry to be painted. Here the advertisers are more likely to be selling single-malt Scotch and leather goods than power mowers. For the more modest-and practical-Hearst has launched Country Living Gardener, and Meredith offers Home Garden. Conda Nast will re-enter the gardening market in the fall of 1996 with the defunct HG, relaunched as House & Garden, under new editor Dominique Browning...