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LIFESTYLES

Light whisky hits shelve

By BETSY POWELL
Thé Canadian Press

From diet soft drinks to calorie-
reduced cat food, there’s no end to
the low-cal products trying to cash in
on today’s health conscious con-
sumers.

Well, waistline watchers, add light
whisky to that list.

Two Canadian rye
manufacturers — Se
Alberta Distillers — have launched
reduced-alcohol, reduced-calorie
products they hope will appeal to the
tipplers who have spurned spirits for

"s a product that is right for life

the '90s,"’ says John Bailey,

marketing vice-president at Seagram.

The Montreal-based distiller plans

a $2-million advertising campaign to

promote its new V.O. Light a less-

potent spinoff of the company’s full-
strength rye.

Touted as a full-flavored rye with
30 per cent fewer calories and 30 per
cent less alcohol, V.O. Light con-
tains 27 per cent alcohol by volume
— compared with the 40 per cent
alcohol content of most Canadian
hard liquor.

But, like most low-calorie produc-
ts, the price isn’t light; it costs the
same as full-strength rye.

This month, the product hit store
shelves in British Colum!

Manitoba and Ontario.

chewan is next and company officials
expect to be selling it across Canada
by early next year.

“We look at it as a response to
consumer needs to smarter drinking
habits and calorie management,"
Bailey says.

It’s also a response to economic
realities.

Over the last five years, sales of
Canadian rye whisky dropped bet-
ween two and eight per cent an-
nually, statistics com by the
Association of Canadian Distillers
show.

of the dangers of drinking and
driving account for the decline in
consumption of spirits.

Low-calorie whisky responds to

beverage marketing analyst, agrees

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with Bates and says she’s
about the public’s reaction to the
new drink.

these while ing a
more moderate attitude toward con-
sumption, says Dan Smith, vice-
president of sales and marketing for
Alberta Distillers. «

“We've been looking for years for
a way to address this.

Instead of introducing a weaker
version of a full strength product,
Alberta Distillers has created a new
brand called Soft Liquor —
Canadian Rye Whisky.

“*It makes good marketing sense to
listen to consumers and try to
respond to the lifestyles changes
people are making."’

While these products pack only

Similar figures are for
such liquors as gin and scotch, while
sales of light beer and wine are
rising.

In 1989, Canadians drank 5.1
million litres of rye whisky, ¢om-
pared with 6.5 million litres in 1985.

Industry observers say health con-
cerns, the fitness craze, high taxes on
alcohol and an increased awareness

hirds the punch of
full-strength rye, it’s a myth to think
they’ll discourage excessive drinking,
says John Bates, president of
PRIDE, an anti-drunk driving: group
ba: in Toronto.
's a gimmick. If you want less
cohol all you have to do is pour
half the shot,”” Bates said.
Margaret Swaine, a food and

bagi! can’t see the point,”’
said Swaine. “If you want to cut
back on your alcohol intake then
have less to drink.”

She thinks the distillers recognize
there's a trend toward modernization
and are trying to capitalize on that
without losing money. She thinks
they're desperate.

While it’s too new to have had a
market impact, Smith says Soft
Liquor has been selling well in Alber-
ta and British Columbia.

Smokers
may not
smell well

TORONTO (CP) — Smokers and
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Smokers may not be enjoying the
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shoulder-is covered with an elaborate
lightning-and-starburst scene.

“But now the stigma is gone. It's
respectable. It’s not just slapping on
a skull-and-dagger or a heart with
Mom any more.

“A lot of tattoos you could put
beside a (painting by) Rembrandt
and say, ‘Hey, that’s art!’ ’’

Of course, what’s art to one per-
son can be an eyesore to another.

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claims he is feared and discriminated
against because his face and body are
covered with more than 4,000 tat-

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that earned him the nickname Snake.

Toronto tattoo artist Bill Cotterell,
his wife Brenda and son Brian aren't
as drastically covered — but among
them they have 129 pieces of body
art. Brenda alone has 54.

“Getting tattoos is like eating
peanuts,’’ says the wiry, chain-
smoking Cotterell, who reckons he
has etched images on more than
25,000 people since he started tat-
tooing nearly 30 years ago.

“Some people can have just one
and say that’s enough. But others
want more and more.

“*Of course, it smarts like hell.”’

Still, that hasn't stopped Toron-
tonians from going to the family’s
Beachcombers Tattoo Studio — one
of fewer than SO skin art places in
Canada — to get everything from
a $10 name to a $1,300 medieval
scene inscribed on their bodies.

Cotterell says that while business
improves about 15 per cent annually,
what's really changing is the type of
people getting tattoos. While bikers
used to be the industry’s bread and
butter, women now comprise 53 per
cent of the Beachcombers’ clientele.

“*We’ve even had clergymen come
in here,’’ says Cotterell.

“They want a cross or Christ’s
head — so we give it to them."’

The craft of tattooing has evolved
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skin and filled them with pigment.

Most tattoo artists first shave,
clean and lubricate with petroleum
jelly the skin about to be et-
ched.Then they apply an acetate or
paper stencil that leaves an outline of
the tattoo design on the skin.

Next, they ‘draw’? over the
outline with a high-speed electric
machine that look like a dentist's
drill. A disposable needle — actually
three or five tiny needles soldered to
form one point — injects color
drawn from a little pot of dye.

The dye is the same non-toxic,
federally approved type used in
cosmetics.

When he finishes etching the
outline, the tattooist draws in
shading and adds colors.

Then the client is marked for life

““What's why I try to talk people
out of having their lover’s name tat-
tooed on them,”’ says Brian Cotterel,
also a tattooist.

“Love affairs aren't like diamonds
— they don’t last forever.

“But tattoos do.””

Well, almost. The images can be
erased by laser surgery or by rubbing
it away with salt, but a scar always
results. Plastic surgeons can also
remove tattoos, but that involves
cutting them out and grafting skin.

“*Be sure you really want a tattoo
before you get one,’’ warns Dr. Gary
Sibbald, a Toronto dermatologist.

“Because later, even if you get it
removed, you’re still going to see
where it was.””

That doesn’t bother Eva Silver,
who has no intention of getting rid
of the skin art that made the residen-
ts and staff at the. seniors’ home
where she used io live i ‘a
lost her sanity.

In fact, she’s contemplating get-
ting another one.

“My doctor says it’s OK," she
says. ‘*And besides, he thinks they’re
beautiful.’

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The study was included in the
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LIFESTYLES

Author retells Meech tale

By JIM COYLE
‘The Canadian Press

It’s not an attractive picture that
journalist Andrew Cohen paints near
the close of his book A Deal Un-
done.

Eleven white, middle-aged,
prosperous men locked behind closed
doors for seven full days — cajoling,
threatening, cursing, weeping,
wavering, prevaricating and trading
Senate seats the way small boys swap
baseball cards.

BOOK REVIEW

Book paints failure of
deal as sorry spectacle

the first objections to Meech Lake.
A Conservative minority was
produced in Manitoba, giving
Premier Filmon two provincial
travelling companions — Liberal
Leader Sharon Carstairs and Gary
Doer of the NDP — for the Meech

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Meech Lake, Of the three holdouts,
McKenna caved in early — sadder,
wiser and potentially two Senate
seats lighter for his negotiating

prowess.
Cohen distils vignettes from the
exercise that range from
i ian to ignii to buf-

It is, Of course, the sorry spectacle
June’s futile efforts to
the Meech Lake con-

stitutional accord.

Cohen, a senior editor with the
Financial Post, has deftly recounted
a tumultuous period in Canada’s
constitutional life. He reviews a
decade of wrangling and chronicles
in detail the Meech Lake saga that
began in April 1987 with an accord
initialled at a government retreat in
the picturesque Gatineau Hills.

It is reading unlikely to bring
much pride to the key participants in
a process that culminated in
melodramatic failure.

“I don’t think any of us has done
a great deal of honor to the countr-
y,”” New Brunswick Premier Frank
McKenna told the author, in reflec-
ting on the process.

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney
and the provincial leaders who signed
that 1987 deal did not count on
changes in three provincial gover-
nments and the arrival of McKenna,
Gary Filmon of Manitoba and
Newfoundland’s Clyde Wells.

Within two years, McKenna raised

Wells was elected in
Newfoundland.

The most compelling reading, for
those who can bear another course in
the longest dinner on record in
Canada, comes in Cohen's behind-
the-scenes look at the week-long
session last June.

It had started at a first ministers’
dinner at the Museum of Civilization
in Hull, Que., and ended on June 9
with a tentative deal on additional
constitutional changes and an orgy
of self-congratulation.

In Cohen's recounting,
Quebec's Robert Bourassa was a pic-
ture of composed intransigence
through most of the endeavor.

More than ever, Wells appears as a
tormented soul whose agonies took
him to the brink of emotional collap-
se. His own advisers, the book says,
were vexed by the Newfoundland
premier’s mood swings and mixed
signals about whether he could sup-
port the accord. It never came to a
vote for re-ratification in his
legislature.

McKenna is portrayed as the
premier who knows not what he
wrought when first objecting to

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really no deal at all,

The fragility of the agreement
made what followed all the more un-
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In a suicidal burst of gloating,
Mulroney confided how he had pur-
posefully rolled the dice in a high-
stakes, 11th-hour conference.

It was a message that Michael
Bliss, a University of Toronto
historian, has said may well have
heralded Canada’s coming social nd
political tumult.

It will remain for historians, or
Perhaps psychoanalysts, to decide
whether a cue was taken from

These men weren't just
building. They were crunching,

contending with ‘‘nightmare
scenarios’’ and ‘‘ass-kicker’’
proposals.

There are the syrupy patriotic
speeches and the cameo appearances
by the constitutional bit players.

Here is Nova Scotia’s John
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during breaks, his abilities as a
raconteur his chief reported con-
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‘Vander Zalm suggesting that if
Senate reform wasn’t achieved in five
years all senators would be fired and
new ones elected or appointed.

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is said to have exclaimed in a tone
left undescribed.

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emerged into public view, celebrating
a deal that Wells plainly wafned was

y by B' 8
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