Word: scotching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like a lot of other performers, Sonny and Cher Bono are at loose ends because of the TV writers' strike in Hollywood. But the long-and-short-of-it pair are having a good time hopping from nightclub to concert. They scotch all rumors that their marriage is cracking up. "Who'd get custody of all our Indian and Italian jokes?" cracked Cher...
Disillusioned with stocks and other traditional investments, more and more Americans are putting new kick in their portfolios by buying warehouse receipts for Scotch whisky. Their interest has been piqued by growing demand for the drink and a spirited direct-mail ad campaign by U.S. and British whisky brokers, who promise annual gains of 15% to 20%. Some investors really do that well - but others, operating in an unregulated business largely controlled by brokers, blenders and other experts, emerge with an excruciating financial hangover...
...plain Georg in real life. Where Karajan tools around in a flashy sports car, Solti drives a Volvo sedan. Where Bernstein emerges from a concert in a flowing cape, Solti strolls out in a faded turtleneck. He prefers mineral water to wine, and his daily drink is usually a Scotch just after the concert and before his late-night supper; he never eats before conducting...
...Tokyo's Ginza alone, well-oiled businessmen drop some $500 million yearly at more than 1,000 bars and restaurants. Prices effectively screen out patrons who have only their own money to spend: dinner for two at Osaka's Yamato-ya restaurant costs about $230, while four Scotch-and-waters at a select Tokyo bar can run to $120, including a tray of hors d'oeuvres and fruit juice for hostesses that the bar employs to keep conversation going. At Osaka's Club Azami, a patron simply signs a tab, the club bills his company...
...aspires to break into show biz, but acts in skin flicks. What Aristotle would call the complication is simplicity itself: Benny, who is about to lose his job, has a chance to put in a fix with the head of his union. For $350 and a case of Scotch he can get a job in a more fashionable eatery. Should he sell his priceless autographs to buy himself a shot at new celebrities...