Invest in a drinks cabinet for your
martini lunch time and a classic Eames chair and you'll be on the right track.
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He portrayed it as part of the unfairness of the nation's tax laws, claiming that the working class was subsidizing the "$50
martini lunch" (businesspeople could write off this type of meal as a job expense).
It's enough to make an executive forswear his three
martini lunch. Not surprisingly, Chevron is denying all charges.
heck, even a
martini lunch. The closet will be opened and the secrets will be revealed.
With their faux-wood paneling on the walls and red leather lounges, they evoke New York's "Mad Men'' era of
martini lunches.
Go back a couple decades further and expense account extravagances and
martini lunches were commonplace.
1964: The Drinking Man's Diet advocates
martini lunches, sells 2.4 million copies in 13 languages.
I suppose it's a good thing we've given up ham-and-egg breakfasts, three
martini lunches and meat-and-potato dinners, but part of me misses the routine of actually sitting down to eat.
(My predecessor, Erwin Knoll, always marveled at this ability of Navasky's.) He takes
martini lunches with prospective writers or donors.
Cocktails have been pushed even further into the spotlight by the glam of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack in the 195 Os, by the "shaken not stirred" appeal of the James Bond era in the 1970s and 80s, and by the three
martini lunches and cigar bars of the 1990s.
In the culture of the early 1960s, executive men in gray flannel routinely lapped up their
martini lunches, leered at the hat-check gal, and staggered back to the office to pinch their secretaries' butts.