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Throughout My Favorite Year, O'Toole wears his dissipation like a tuxedo impeccably tailored, if somewhat stained. Scores of elegant cocktail drunks have swayed tipsily through the history of movie comedy, but no actor has ever made high art out of being totally trashed--until...
...were alien in some ways. There were ways I could have reached out. It was not an antagonistic attitude. It is just not part of my personality. I do not condemn the cocktail circuit. It is just not natural for me to be part...
...menu included shrimp cocktail and steak, and Bok was careful to insure that meal-time conversation did not stray from social chatter to serious negotiation. Some city councilors complained after the gathering that discussions had been too limited and that University officials would not respond to general questions of policy on broad Harvard-city issues...
...real measure of the psychic hurt came in a hundred cocktail parties and reception lines from Canberra to Warsaw, where Moscow's diplomats, military attachés and KGB operatives went to work after a few belts of Stolichnaya vodka. Arabs can't be trusted to do anything right, the Soviets told other customers for their military hardware. In the air and on the ground, the Syrians were "incompetent and cowardly," the Soviets complained. The SAMS are mobile missiles. So what did the Syrians do? They left them in one place, rooted like oaks, and the Israelis knocked...
...help of his intended victims, the Rumanian double agent set out to deceive Bucharest with a bit of cloak, if not dagger. For the benefit of secret-police comrades who had been sent to watch him, Haiducu followed through on an elaborate plan to kill Goma. During a cocktail party he used a specially made fountain pen to squirt a toxic chemical into the writer's drink. But a French agent " accidentally" jostled Goma's arm, spilling the poison. Since Haiducu could not fail on his second mission, the attack on Tanase had to be even more convincing...