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...faithful who spent their days selling bonds and their nights at the juice bar, the holy water was Perrier, a drink with the flavor of old rocks and the price of cheap perfume. Shielded from the light in its distinctive green bowling-pin bottles, Perrier was the drink of choice of a whole generation that was equally suspicious of whisky and Pepsi. But those who are busy toasting the beginning of a new decade may have to return to Scotch or soda -- at least for a while...
...chic restaurants and athletic clubs, health-conscious Americans guzzled so much Perrier bottled mineral water in the 1980s that it became the drink of the decade. Some of the fizz may go out of Perrier's $450 million annual sales with word last week that the firm's U.S. distributor is recalling its entire inventory from store shelves nationwide because laboratory tests found benzene in a small number of bottles...
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Smoking anything without inhaling. Cooking with pine nuts. Drinking espresso, even though it tastes awful. Drinking San Pelligrino water instead of Perrier, or Perrier instead of club soda. Joining an unworthy cause. Talking about Decon-structionism or unloading your artistic/thesis anxiety on any available listener. Calling yourself an artist. Going to Harvard...
...favored, Whitmanesque sobriquet makes even more sense as an evocation of a McFerrin performance. He appears onstage alone, his only instrument a mike, his only prop a bottle of Perrier, and the song will take him over, take him away. He sings lyrics, he sings rhythms, he sings sounds. "Singing without words is easier," he says. "Consonants get in the way. It's hard to sing as fluidly with lyrics." He will slap his thumb against his chest to make a bass tone as his hand becomes the snare drum. The mike, rubbed against his close- cut beard...