Word: scotching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...favorite villains in Hindi movies is the smuggler king who, like Dr. No, runs his crooked empire from a posh suite crammed with electronic marvels, secret panels designed for quick getaways and strong rooms filled with gold and jewels. Invariably, he drinks the finest Scotch, drives a fast foreign car and has a passionate, sloe-eyed mistress. The Indian government has decided that the stereotype is a little too true to be good...
...late last month with one thing in mind. "We have come to gamble," they told the casino management. "But on certain conditions. We're going to tell you when to close." The casino, which normally shuts down around 2 in the morning, remained open as long as the Scotch-sipping Saudis wished, sometimes until 9 the next morning...
...doesn't drink except for a "very occasional" scotch and water. He doesn't smoke. He drinks milk three times a day. He goes to church every Sunday. And he voted for Nixon...
...they can come to understanding one another is argument; his son in California clutches him as his false glamor dissolves beneath him. Harry moves on, encountering young runaway girls, health food swindlers, and an Indian who cures his arthritis in return for an electric blender. He buys Tonto a Scotch in a Las Vegas casino and spends the night in jail for pissing into a potted fern in the lobby. In the end, Tonto dies and Harry is offered a chance to move in with a well-preserved widow in Miami. Life goes on; Harry finds...
Poskanzer concedes that his hypothesis has not been technically "proved"-but he is literally betting that it will be. "I have a reporting system," he points out, "and I offer a bottle of Scotch to any doctor in the U.S. who can send me a report of a clearly diagnosed case of Parkinson's in a patient born since 1931. So far it's cost me 14 bottles-just 14 of these younger patients identified since 1961." If Poskanzer is right, Parkinsonism will subside with the passing of the generation born in the early 1900s...