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Hemphill was a Nieman Fellow a few years back, and Harvard was not a particularly pleasant experience for him. "It dawned on me, after too many boring cocktail parties with too many terribly proper New Englanders," he says, "that what I was really missing at Harvard was the sweaty passion for life I had always taken for granted while growing up in the South." Being able to capture the sweaty passion is what sustains Hemphill as a writer, and as long as that passion holds out he will be able to rise above the mass of cliches that...
...fertilized by the husband's sperm (obtained by masturbation), 3) the conceptus was kept alive and subdividing in glassware for a few days, and finally 4) it was implanted in the wife's uterus. Bevis succeeded in keeping the conceptus alive in what he calls "a complicated cocktail of nutrients and antibiotics," with as many as 40 ingredients...
...West Berlin, the restaurant of the Kempinski Hotel was serving a World Cup Cocktail-equal parts of curacao, vodka and orange juice-at 5½ Deutsche Mark a throw, or kick. On the Kudamm you could buy a record of the West German eleven trolling "Football is our life . . . King Football rules the world." Democratic Germany, as opposed to the German Democratic Republic, was taking the footballworld-mastership to her uncorseted and friendly bust. The spirit of internationalism was stretched so far that even selected chain gangs from the workers' paradise over the Wall were clanked into the corruptive...
...cassettes, more than 50% of Scotch whisky. Taking trips to the Caribbean, Mexico, Europe and Africa, they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry. Trans World Airlines offers special black tours of Europe that feature trips to nonwhite communities, visits to African museums, and cocktail parties with black servicemen and expatriates...
...landed a job on the staff of Pompidou, then De Gaulle's Premier. Chirac's talents as a fixer and arranger made him indispensable to Pompidou, who fondly called him "my bulldozer." He included him in the small circle of staffers with whom he would share a cocktail...