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...some gut level, the whole idea of electroshock therapy is absurd. At a time when people with mental illnesses can choose from a pharmacological cornucopia, why would they have electricity run through their brain instead? Didn't electroshock disappear around the same time as three-martini lunches...
...composer of Take Five claimed he wanted his alto saxophone to sound like a dry martini. Desmond's wish came true on this 1975 cool-jazz masterpiece, finally available on CD after two decades in limbo. Backed up by Canadian super-guitarist Ed Bickert, Desmond, who died in 1977, spins out long, pungent melodic lines that float through the air with luminous grace. Best of all is a slyly witty version of Things Ain't What They Used to Be that would have made Duke Ellington grin...
...RECORD Secretaries who take dictation may have gone the way of three-piece suits and two-martini lunches, but Sony's new digital voice-to-print recorder ($300 including software) fills the gap. The MS1 records up to 131 minutes of brilliant ideas. Instead of a cassette, it uses a tiny memory card. Pop it into your PC (with an adapter), and the software transcribes your words into a text file. You can even highlight the transcribed text and listen for errors. They're working on the martinis...
While growing up, my little brother and I did laundry together, and to this day nobody bleaches whites the way he does. While I dealt with my recent laundry emergency, he brought me a martini. Two olives. "That's what I call a nice apology, [nickname deleted for now]," I said...
...cheek," and perhaps it could have been. But it's just poorly executed. The narrator comes off not as likable and witty, but bitter and harpy-ish: by the time she huffs, "Re-a-lly," you can practically see her at the end of the kitchen counter, holding a martini in one hand while she lights a cigarette with the one still burning in her mouth. (And yes, that is a sexist image. But try to use positive sexist stereotypes - i.e., that women are inherently nicer than men - and you risk inadvertently conjuring negative ones...