Personal Disclaimer: I feel a debt of gratitude to gin. The early 1980s were the tail end of the Three-Martini Lunch, but the book publishing industry, like the advertising industry, was still fully involved in a romance with gin (do you watch Mad Men?). I was working at a New York book publishing house and
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I recently bought a new car for the first time in many years and was amazed at all the technological developments. It took me back to the early ’60s and thoughts of my ’49 Mercury coupe. That automobile, like its owner at the time, was loud, unstable, and thirsty. (I sometimes imagine taking my present
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