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Bronfman could be Dan Quayle or Champale -- or something more potent, a strong successor to his father. Junior has cut costs, promoted such high-margin products as Martell Cognac and bought the Dole fruit-juice line to complement Tropicana. Seagram's profits doubled in 1994, to $734 million...
West, a lifelong migraine sufferer, was used to weird sensations in his head. So when he felt a familiar woozy pain coming on, he downed a tumbler of Cognac and went to bed. The next morning his breakfast coffee dribbled down his chin and his words turned to mush. These symptoms of a mild stroke quickly cleared, but not the cause: cardiac arrhythmias that required the planting of a pacemaker in his chest. West variously refers to this retrofit as his "titanium tit" and that "little lead soldier ... making a small battuta on my suet...
These portraits introduce charmingly aphoristic essays filled with lively, unexpected detail (did you know that Andean peasants can identify 300 varieties of potato?). In the town of Cognac, which produces a world-famous, tongue-loosening brandy, Zeldin asked a housewife, With whom do you have your most useful talks? Her answer, "With my dog. He really understands me." This anecdote leads into Zeldin's discussion of conversation and of one of his heroes, Socrates. In an age when monologue was dominant-gods or kings lectured while common folk listened-Socrates developed the revolutionary notion of the dialogue. Another conversational revolutionary...
...following in the iconoclastic footsteps of his father, played host to one of the world's prickliest politicians this week: Russian hypernationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. No meeting between the two was reported, but the heavy-drinking bad boy Vlad and Kim, reportedly a dedicated party animal who loves Cognac, seem to see eye to eye: Zhirinovsky carefully had nothing but good things to say about Kim in the North Korean press...
Michel Montignac ogles a slice of foie gras marinated in Cognac. He beams over a chocolate mousse swimming in lavender-flavored sauce and, closing his eyes, dreamily sniffs a glass of Bordeaux. Delicious, yes, but surely these rich offerings are as fattening as French food...