Word: souring
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...London-born Walters made and spent millions on his lavish supper clubs in Boston, New York and Miami. His cavalcade of performers included Frank Sinatra, Marlene Dietrich, Milton Berle and Mae West. A hit-and-miss Broadway producer, Walters went bankrupt in 1966 when his deals started to sour. In his glory days, his celebrity circle surrounded Daughter Barbara, who was never awed by stars in her later-life role of interviewer...
There are several ways in which a novel based on such a premise could run rapidly downhill. It could sour into morbidity or fist-shaking stridency or traipse into a misty, philosophical meadow, where every delicious moment is the first one of the rest of our lives. This tightly constructed first novel makes no such blunders. English Author Gillian Martin uses Hannah's perverse decision as an occasion not to settle old scores but to examine some unexamined lives...
...girl singer, but with the soloists in a different key from the band. Smack in the midst of the gold-tinsel snowfalls and the studied unreality of the sound stages, Scorsese spins out a naturalistic, contemporary-feeling melodrama about a love affair that goes sour...
...marketing drinks with less punch (as low as 25 proof) but more in the way of vivid color: the Pink Squirrel, for instance, could be taken for Pepto-Bismol. Schenley is bidding for a share of the premixed market with a new line of twelve drinks-including an apricot sour...
...fashioned baseball writing concentrated on such issues. Was the manager a sour drunk? Was the superslugger a tightwad? No matter. Write only about the games. Emotion, indeed humanity, was irrelevant. You can read a season of sports pages from 1951 without learning anything of the interplay between the fading patriarch (DiMaggio) and the bucolic Wunderkind (Mantle...