Word: cocktailing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...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...
...idyll has a villain: Booth's father, a stiff, cocktail-swilling prig who denigrates the locals and mocks the boy for "going native." The elder Booth "was a natural-born bully," writes his ever-upbeat son. "On the other hand, I did grow up mixing a mean cocktail." The heroine is his mother?spunky, intelligent and curious about all things Chinese. Dad, a civilian employee of the navy, wants to go home; Mum wants to stay. As the family heads for the ship that will return them to England, she impulsively grabs Martin and leaps from the car. Gweilo...
...audience. "Personally," says a voice from behind the veil, "I think it's a drag to wear a burqa because I always get chased by kids for an autograph. They think I'm Darth Vader." To loud applause, Shabana Rehman shakes off the burqa to reveal a skimpy red cocktail dress underneath. She promises to tell the audience "the dirtiest joke you ever heard," and then proceeds to do so - in Urdu. The crowd loves it. Rehman, one of Norway's best-known comedians, has made a career out of poking fun and provoking outrage at the predicament of conservative...