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...three-martini lunch has always been more of a political symbol than a business reality. Probably the most common drinks these days at executive lunches from Manhattan to Malibu are Perrier and white wine. John O'Toole, chairman of New York City's Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency, was bemused by the Senate action. Said he: "I get a dismal sense of déjà vu. Didn't this happen just a few years ago?" Harry Poulakakos, owner of Harry's at Hanover
...running shoes and warmup suit, puffing on a Dunhill briar pipe, leafs through the pictures of his pre-Rocky days, a ritual of memory: "There's me in a doorman's jacket I stole to keep warm. There's me with an earring-I actually delivered Perrier in that. Another with my torn-T shirt Stanley Kowalski look. Every six months I'd go to one of those picture machines to see how fast I was deteriorating...
About 80 guests, a quarter of them male, gather in the clubhouse for cocktails (Perrier and bitters), then dinner (coq au vin, 221 calories). Conversation immediately turns to food. "Frozen Milky Way," intones East Coast Type A. A short, wistful silence. "Frozen Haagen-Dazs," invokes Marilynn. All furiously chew their detoxifying greens. "But," says Marilynn, "everyone knows that frozen things have no calories, right?" The table breaks up laughing...
...years ago in its flaming youth stole the stage is now dragging culture-consumers of all ages and sensibilities through its mid-life crisis. The children of Marx and Coca-Cola, as Godafd described them in his wonderful 1966 film Masculin-Feminin, are now the adults of EST and Perrier. And their movies--An Unmarried Woman, The Goodbye Girl, Kramer Versus Kramer, and now Shoot the Moon--are self-centered and, mostly, boring. Television is now catching on, with ABC offering a TV-movie that cashes in on both the trend toward family crisis dramas and space adventures with...
...Englewood, N.J. The first 90 minutes of the show were a smooth arc of excitement and unapologetic razzle-dazzle: a lyric Try to Remember by Harry Belafonte, a monologue delivered at giddy white heat by Robin Williams ("What excitement backstage-everyone's standing around in little pools of Perrier"), a dingbat piano solo by Dudley Moore, and film clips of such stars as James Cagney, James Stewart and Bette Davis, who then showed up at center stage to greet one another and an S.R.O. audience of 6,000 who had paid from $25 to $1,000 for the privilege...