The weeks leading up to the Oscars are a fanciful slog of cocktail parties, luncheons, lesser award shows and industry screenings, all of which I chronicle daily in my role as the Carpetbagger columnist.
And the Manhattan, one of the 19th-century drinks that began to reduce the fanciful art of the cocktail to a science by the 20th century, prefers sweet vermouth, though it can include dry, too.
Designers have laid out fanciful plans for amenities like a cocktail bar, a gym or sleeping rooms, but the early Boeing 747's had such frills too, and they mostly gave way to plain old seating space.
Opulent and fanciful embroidery adorned the jackets of Schiaparelli cocktail suits; rococo gold frames surround mirrors on one of them.
As I said, the specific historical allusion is a fanciful one — something to toy with over your second cocktail at the office Christmas party, nothing more.
He entertained me with fanciful tales, including an unlikely account of bumping into bin Laden at cocktail parties at the American Embassy during the jihad against the Soviets.
The fanciful pink bar menu offered dozens of Champagne labels and a detailed cocktail list featuring the classic In & Out Martini (the vermouth goes out, the gin stays in), as well as a version of James Bond's recipe from Casino Royale: gin, vodka and vermouth.
Transitioning into cocktail, Wu's signature style emerged--nevertheless with some fanciful twists.
As the report notes: "While Dr Rodchenkov's 'cocktail' may sound fanciful... steroids dissolve better in alcohol than in water, and the administration of steroids through bucal absorption, as compared to injection or swallowing the drug, does shorten the window of detectability". The cocktail had a name too: "Duchess" after a traditional Russian drink.
