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...fund-raiser—the last one that Kerry will attend before the election—required a minimum donation of $1,000 to attend the pre-dinner cocktail reception and $5,000 to attend the entire program...
...sedatives usually prescribed for insomnia and anxiety, topping up whatever heroin she could find: "I used to mix them with smack, take five pills with a hit. The next day I'd be completely blank about what I'd been doing." Some of her friends tried the same crude cocktail, while others began experimenting with stimulants, especially ice, the potent crystallized form of methamphetamine. When the heroin started trickling back, they didn't return...
...this vodka's pedigree. Each bottle is the product of a single farm in Poland, where the rye is grown, harvested and distilled on the premises. Whether all this effort adds anything to the flavor is debatable, but it does provide a conversation topic at a chic cocktail party generously underwritten by the vodka's parent, the spirits giant Pernod Ricard...
...Single Estate's birth, several years in the making, is a textbook example of how to launch a "superpremium" vodka. Beginning in the mid-'90s with Belvedere and Grey Goose, superpremiums have transformed vodka's image from a flavorless mixer into an "affordable luxury" that costs only $15 a cocktail...
...eventually forgave his wartime indiscretions. He was granted a knighthood six weeks before he died. Today the Oxford English Dictionary contains 1,600 Wodehouse citations, and scholars dissect his writings for a depth that isn't really there. What is there, as fans can attest, is a timeless, effervescent cocktail of comic juxtapositions, smoothly musical prose and exuberant generosity. "Behind the Drones and the manor house weekends," writes McCrum, "is a sweet, melancholy nostalgia for an England of innocent laughter and song." An England that Wodehouse, after his thoughtless blunder, never saw again...