Word: scotchness
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...nights a week, as he admits in his courageous new memoir, A Fractured Mind (Hyperion; 285 pages), he performed what he calls his addiction ritual. "It required," he writes, "two packs of cigarettes, Polish sausage, a gallon of ice cream, a two-pound bag of peanuts, a bottle of scotch, and a pornographic movie...
Growing up in Appalachia in the 1950s, Brent Kennedy always believed that he was of English and Scotch-Irish descent, just like everyone he knew in his hometown of Wise, Va. But when he saw the film Lawrence of Arabia in 1962, he noticed that his family looked more like the Arabs in the movie than the British. Kennedy had inherited his father's light blue eyes, but he had his mother's black hair and in the summer would get a deep tan. He had heard a story about his great-grandfather being barred from voting in the early...
This being Britain, fastidious attention is paid to class issues, even among the criminal classes. That's especially true of XXXX, yearning to breathe more rarefied air. His apartment is done up in white-on-white style--chic photos on the wall, excellent Scotch on the coffee table, which is, of course, artily shot from the floor, looking up through the glass. This is, we think, a provisional environment, blank, characterless, impersonal. What he really wants is something darker, more traditional...
...hours. A novice can write one in 20 hours with assistance and 30 hours without assistance." The perpetrators are frequently disaffected engineers and computer technicians. Says Security Consultant Sanford Sherizen of Natick, Mass.: "A lot of people grew up in data processing, spent years holding computers together with Scotch tape, putting in extra hours, and in recent years of the industry's growth they don't feel they have got an adequate reward...
...sample a 1939 vintage whisky that retails for $1,500 a bottle. Talks will be given by, among others, distillery retail manager Ronnie Routledge, who is a Keeper of the Quaich?the industry's highest accolade for those who have dedicated their professional lives to the promotion of Scotch whisky...