Word: syrups
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...trace of a tan or of West Coast show-biz gloss. She bounces into a magazine photo session, wearing a dime-store sun dress and dark glasses held together by a safety pin. She is a fan of egg creams (a New York soft drink made of seltzer, chocolate syrup, milk and, of course, no eggs), and a resolute rider of subways; if the middle class and the rich don't use the subways, she argues, they will continue to fall apart and so will her beloved city. Streep is a liberal who is outraged by the Reaganauts in Washington...
Westmore should know. For Jake La Motta's saga he used gallons of chocolate syrup, an ingredient that simulates blood in black-and-white films. Director Martin Scorsese told him that he wanted both to see and to hear De Niro's nose break, so Westmore constructed a kind of teetertotter proboscis for De Niro that popped when it was hit in the big fight scene. Seven tiny tubes were also attached to the star's face, and when the fake nose went bang, Westmore, who was on the other end of the tubes, began pumping...
...discounts and credit deals. So he decided to go where the chains could not follow, to 16% butterfat and, never mind the cost, the very best ingredients. The new ice cream had no stabilizers to minimize the effects of melting during handling, no preservatives, no powdered milk, no corn syrup...
...scoopers get more ice cream. She and her colleagues fight brain-fade by sizing up customers ("definitely a Swiss orange-chip person") the way soda jerks used to do. "The other day a guy came in and ordered a frappe with vanilla and mocha-chip ice cream, vanilla syrup, marshmallow sauce, hot butterscotch and an egg. That was weird." Her word frappe here is a Frenchified New England term for what Midwesterners call a milkshake...
...Voyager has been playing on the late show. Carnes, 34, who served time in the late 1960s dishing up freezer-packed folk music with the New Christy Minstrels, has a voice that is throaty without being funky, insinuating but safe, sort of like Lizabeth Scott chugging Vicks cough syrup. Garbo and Harlow are mentioned with Davis in the song, an evocation of a killer-diller temptress who gives the guys a tumble and turns them inside out ("She'll expose you when she snows you/Off your feet with the crumbs that she throws...