Word: aperitif
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DIED. André Dubonnet, 82, French aperitif heir, sportsman and inventor; of cancer; near Paris. The bon vivant son of Joseph Dubonnet, founder of the liqueur-making firm, André was an archetype of the moneyed adventurer, equally absorbed with beautiful women (he married four) and the high-speed excitement he sought as a World War I aviator, 1924 Olympic bobsledder and car racer. Besides driving for Hispano-Suiza and Bugatti in the 1920s, he funneled his fortune into various innovations, including a novel suspension system he sold to General Motors. In the 1960s, after the Dubonnet company merged with...
...long predinner cocktail hour is vanishing; at most parties, white wine, dry sherry or a light aperitif is served?briefly ?instead of the palate-numbing Scotches and martinis of yesteryear. Preprandial hors d'oeuvres?"horrors d'oeuvres," as an English hostess once dubbed those limp, gluey concoctions?have yielded to crisp vegetable sprigs and slices. Thereafter come a few well-confected courses that cry, in Jonathan Swift's words, "Come, eat me!" And, of course, a wine or two to dignify their downing...
WHOEVER DECIDED to put on this show in the dead of night must have 0intended it to be seen as a frothy little nightcap, a light aperitif after a long evening of more substantial diversion. But whoever it was, he or she was wrong. Not that running a show at midnight is a bad idea--on the contrary, it's godsend for dedicated theatergoers who want to pack in two productions a night. It's just that this show is so good it must almost inevitably become the piece-de-resistance of any evening's entertainment, making whatever came before...
...watched a few executives in the audience yawn and felt like a thirteen year old who has gotten pregnant by sitting on a Tijuana toilet seat. If these guys were bored by the Street Choir, they'd be stupefied by the Bead Game. Goldstein went looking for an aperitif, and the hopes for the Boston Sound were personified by the queasy expression on his face when he found...
...during a dinner at a friend's house, he will excuse himself and stand on his head in the corner for five minutes. Exuberantly boyish, he likes to slide down banisters or vault over platform railings to shake hands. He drinks only moderately-wine with meals, an occasional aperitif or whisky. But he despises smoking, which he looks upon, according to one friend, "as the most barbaric habit in the modern world...