Word: vermouths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secretaries attending conventions and Italian Film Maker Roberto Rossellini. He leaves pastis operations to subordinates. "I'm not here to run the business day to day," he tells them, "but to foresee the future." Cushioning that future, Ricard has expanded into mineral water, fruit juices, cognac, wine and vermouth...
...Italians have taken to business gift giving with a frenzy, heavily favor French champagne or Italian spumante, Scotch and cognac. Martini & Rossi, Cinzano and Carpano all send out packages or cases of their best vermouth. ENI, the government-owned petroleum combine, gives champagne in decorative holders; IRI, the industrial combine, sends cases of high-quality Maccarese wine. No one cleans up in Italy like the Italian police. Companies have taken up the custom, long observed by the populace, of giving them presents at Epiphany. One result is that on Jan. 6 it is often difficult to spot a traffic...
...bottle; but Bronfman the elder argued that it was difficult or impossible to make a bottled cocktail taste as it should. Now Edgar says that Seagram has solved the problem: it has discovered methods of using fresh, whole-fruit juices instead of extracts, and of preventing the vermouth in the mixes from losing flavor...
Dorothy Parker to the contrary, ardent males and astigmatic lasses hit it off like Beefeater and vermouth. What the pass thrower seldom realizes in such cases these days is that the eyes he's making eyes at are sous cloche. How could he? Of 6,000,000 contact wearers in the U.S. last year, nearly 65% were women. Since contact lenses first became widely available in 1953, bad eyesight has not only won social acceptability; among the young, particularly, it has become a status symbol...
COLLABORATION: THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET WITH LAURINDO ALMEIDA (Atlantic). The M.J.Q. and the Brazilian guitarist seem meant for each other, like gin and vermouth. Not that they are intoxicating; their colors are muted, their moods refined, their rhythms subtle. They can swing, but seldom do. In Bach's A Minor Fugue they demonstrate delicate counterpoint, and in the Adagio from the Concierto de Aranjuez they conjure up a lavender twilight as the guitar gently punctures the lingering ring of the vibraharp...