Word: tonic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trip was a tonic for him; this film, for all its verbal and emotional buoyancy, touches a depth his earlier work danced around, like revelers on a volcano's edge. Mother begins by painting an idyll: of Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a nurse who works in her hospital's organ-transplant unit, and her darling son Esteban (Eloy Azorin). Manuela is the mom every gay, or simply sensitive, son would adore. She watches All About Eve with him, gives him a Truman Capote book for his birthday, takes him to a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He is a sweet...
...Crimson Sports Grille (59 JFK St.; 868-5900; Sunday to Wednesday noon to 1 a.m., Thursday to Saturday noon to 2 a.m.) makes it doable. To avoid the premature beer belly, Matty the bartender advises to stick to light beer, vodka and whiskey. The healthiest drink is the vodka tonic. As for the hard Cider/Beer debate, keep in mind that cider has those sugar calories that beer doesn't, but cider has twice the alcohol content and will get you wicked hammered twice as fast. As for the Grille's munchies, they are surprisingly not that...
...hundreds of men in the process, its military campaign to eject the intruders also looked set to succeed if diplomacy failed. So where once it looked like a sticky wicket for Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Pakistan?s Kashmir adventure may yet turn out to have been just the tonic for his embattled government as he faces Sonia Gandhi in September?s election...
This business model may be contagious; a few weeks after Tonic's first press release, William Semich, executive editor of the industry trade publication WebWeek (now Internet World), announced his own ".nu" domain registry, based on the even tinier (pop. 2,000) South Pacific island of Niue. (Semich says he started his venture months earlier...
...Gullichsen isn't sweating the competition. Instead he's readying his next company, MetaCorp, due for launch this summer. It will allow customers to license their own offshore companies, complete with online banking, all dispensed via another self-run website based, like Tonic, in Gullichsen's Tonga fiefdom...