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...more uplifting note, Hooker's classic cut, "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer," Proves to be the most enjoyable song on the album. Considering that this song has been previously released, its place on Hooker's latest album is a bit of a mystery. Nevertheless, this uppity anthem has lost none of its punch, as it tells the story of a man drinking and drugging a woman off his mind. Hardly the portrait of a healthy relationship, the tune is a perfect setting for Hooker to croon the lyric, "sitting here drinking/ getting stoned/ yeah, yeah," with all the conviction...
DIED. PRINCE ALEXIS D'ANJOU DE BOURBON-CONDE, 47, heir presumptive to the Russian throne; of complications from brain tumors; in Madrid. Alexis claimed to be the grandson of Grand Duchess Maria, the third daughter of Csar Nicholas II; either Maria or her sister Anastasia, some have theorized, escaped the Bolsheviks' 1918 massacre of Russia's royal family. Last October, Alexis gave a blood sample for testing to compare his DNA with that in bone samples taken from the massacre site; no official findings have been released...
...there was the horror of having witnessed murder. Perhaps as importantly, while a few colleagues had framed the scene perfectly, Carter was reloading his camera with film just as the executions took place. "I knew I had missed this f------ shot," he said subsequently. "I drank a bottle of bourbon that night...
They called him by fanciful code names -- Top Hat, Bourbon, Donald, Roam -- and on the days when his latest cache of secrets would arrive at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, a CIA officer says, "it was like Christmas." There was something for everyone. The names of four U.S. military officers working as spies for the Soviet Union. Hard evidence of Beijing's deepening animus toward Moscow, which President Nixon exploited to forge his 1972 opening to China. Technical data on Soviet-made antitank missiles, which allowed U.S. forces, years later, to defeat those weapons when they were employed by Iraq...
Yeltsin has been haunted by stories of excessive alcohol consumption ever since his 1989 visit to the U.S., when he popped up at Johns Hopkins University smelling of bourbon and behaving erratically. Another unsettling incident came in March 1993 when Yeltsin made an unexpected appearance before the rebellious congress late one Saturday afternoon. His hair was plastered to his forehead, his eyes looked glazed, and his speech was filled with long pauses and slurred words. Those watching assumed that Yeltsin was drunk...