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The Monday Morning Memo

“The use of euphemism in national advertising
is giving the hangover a bad name. ‘Over-indulgence’ it is called.
There is a curious nastiness about over-indulgence. We would not
consider over-indulging. The name is unpleasant, and the word ‘over’
indicates that one shouldn’t have done it. Our celebration had no such
implication. We did not drink too much. We drank just enough,
and we refuse to profane a good little time of mild inebriety
with that slurring phrase ‘over-indulgence.'”

 

“There have been very few immortals who did not love wine;
offhand we cannot think of any and we do not intend to try very hard.”

 

– John Steinbeck, 

The Sea of Cortez,
p. 198, (1941)

 

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“She oversaw more gut renovations than a general contractor. In 1979, she took the occasion of B.B. King’s ‘The Thrill Is Gone’ to allow her backing singer to exclaim that she (and they) were ‘free at last.’ Toward the end of her funked-up, very fun version of Sam & Dave’s ‘Hold On, I’m Comin’,’ she tossed in some ‘beep-beeps’ and a couple of lines from ‘Little Jack Horner’ because she knew she could make it work.”

- Wesley Morris, The New York Times, Aug. 16, 2018, Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It?

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