Word: vermouths
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...chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission under Franklin Roosevelt. The professor turned bureaucrat quickly became a regular at F.D.R.'s "command performance" poker games. He also became the President's favorite martini mixer (chilled glasses with lemon rubbed on the rim, and just a taint of vermouth...
Muriel Spark has posed in a fetching peignoir with a sinister black cat draped over her shoulder. In her prose, too, she has mostly worn her rue with a deference to the reader's need to take his shots of cold mortality with a little sweet vermouth. Lately, however, the author has grown more flatly somber, shorter on style, wit and patience, like a lonely spinster who has become too preoccupied, too saddened by the world to go through the reassuring motions of genial small talk...
...this deters a dedicated telephoneticist like Los Angeles Mathematician Angela Dunn, who has created words out of most of her friends' numbers. A pharmacist and his wife for whom she invented GRADLUP were so pleased that they now regularly serve a drink they have christened the Gradlup (vermouth and Scotch). San Francisco Producer-Director Alan Myerson, whose old Los Angeles phone was named GOLLYGO, always answered it by saying "gollygo" instead of "hello." Other Los Angeles phone names under which Myerson was once listed: HOLY PIG and ON A SONG...
...SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA. Anthony Quinn reaches comic-opera stature as the roistering, boozy Bombolini, who becomes the town's hero as he cons the invading Germans out of nearly 1,000,000 bottles of vermouth. Anna Magnani as Rosa, his strong-willed wife, proves every bit the match for Bombolini-not to mention the Nazis...
...then, the whole wine-rich village is melancholy-until it learns that the Germans are coming to take over the town and its only treasure, vino. Bombolini, the town drunk, is hastily proclaimed mayor. His single responsibility: to hide a million bottles of vermouth. His metamorphosis from clown to hero -and what he does with the wine-provides The Secret of Santa Vittoria...