Word: spritzer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyone who has run the department-store gauntlet, dodging spritzer-wielding salespeople, knows that smelling good is serious business. In the U.S. more than 1,000 fragrances emit a heady bouquet--$5 billion in annual sales. The scent of all that money, however, seems to have lured some unlikely folks into the fragrance business. Some of the more curious perfume personalities...
...seldom on equal footing. More often than not, musicians opt either for the predictable, ingratiating styles of pop (Kenny G.) or for ostentatious, cerebral techniques lifted from jazz (Steely Dan). What they get is slick, one-dimensional music, a bogus hybrid that has all the kick of a wine spritzer...
...Pardon me," said the Magician as he finishedpainting a picture of a horse doing something onlya horse can do, "I could caste a spell to make itall go away, and it would be a really cool spellwith toads feet, hiar of newt, and a twist of batwings as a spritzer, but let me ask you, 'Have youever seen a post-modern clown...