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...Twelve years ago, I gave up spirits. I used tobe a pretty good scotch drinker. I haven't tastedscotch in 12 years. After that I had only wine,and perhaps an occasional martini, occasionally alittle vodka with smoked salmon, caviar, somethinglike that. That was just occasionally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tower Pledges Not to Drink if Approved | 2/27/1989 | See Source »

...performed like the Three Stooges or Laurel and Hardy, though this seems to be the Dunster House approach. Physical humor, which might play well in the background, is brought to center stage, detracting from the play itself. The audience is treated to such extended vignettes as Axel struggling with Scotch tape and the embassy priest struggling to free himself from a Houdiniesque magic trick. These antics are funny by themselves, but are not anywhere near enough to carry an entire play...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Ugly Americans | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

...wanted a bottle of scotch, brandy and oneBailey's Irish Cream," said Lee. "However, thepromoter cut out that part of the contract...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Tickets for Jimmy Cliff Show Available Today | 11/2/1988 | See Source »

Philip Morris hopes Kraft will not be as resistant to a takeover as Pillsbury, which is fighting a $5.2 billion offer from Grand Metropolitan, a British liquor conglomerate (J&B Scotch and Smirnoff vodka). Last week the company took out full-page newspaper ads that showed the normally cherubic Pillsbury Doughboy with a grim expression and wearing boxing gloves. Warned the ad: "We're not going to sit idly by while an opportunistic British liquor and gambling company tries to buy respectability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fights on Wall Street | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...lifters by claiming that they had taken the drug without approval in order to lose weight and not to enhance performance. But Gottfried Schodl, president of the International Weightlifting Federation, viewed things differently. Said he: "If you are drunk, it doesn't matter if you drank gin, vodka or Scotch." Both lifters were stripped of their medals by the I.O.C. The disgraced Bulgarians then withdrew their whole weightlifting team, which had shots at five more medals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Shorts: A Top Power Crumbles | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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