Word: cognac
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...Vatican office. Shaw found himself taking soggy notes as he conversed with a theologian in swimming trunks beside a pool on the Via Cassia. One Vatican official refused to see Wynn anywhere but in the privacy of his own apartment, where he talked freely over glasses of his prize cognac. There was, in fact, only one interview in a Vatican office...
First over coffee, then at supper on the terrace, and later over Russian cognac, Brandt tried to impress on his Soviet host the fact that, as he put it, "the East German measures are damaging and place a burden on efforts to reach a detente." Despite the good personal relations between the two men (they met five times while Brandt was still West Berlin's mayor), it was a tough session. Though he issued no blustery warnings, Brandt made it clear that Bonn would not allow itself to be provoked into abandoning its policy of improving relations with...
Easy Time. Between the caviar and cognac, Philby managed to sandwich in a few new fascinating revelations about his past activities. He had worked, he claimed, with such unheralded British spies as Novelist Graham Greene ("he worked in intelligence") and the late Ian Fleming ("he was aide to the director of naval intelligence"). Furthermore, Fleming's James Bond "had an easy time of it: Bond's only worries were gay holidays and amorous intrigues." As for himself, Philby modestly admitted that, as chief of British intelligence operations in Washington in 1951, he had personally thwarted a CIA plot...
...Instead, he spends the space discussing the fascinating food his soloist, Aloys Kontarsky, consumed on the days when the album was being recorded. On the groaning board: jugged deer with Spdtzle; marrow consomme; steak Tartare; saltimbocca romana ("He sent the rice back"); Movenpick ice-cream tart; Haldengut Pilsen beer; Cognac; Coca-Cola; Johannisberg wine, and one Bloody Mary. During one recording session, confides Stockhausen, "every movement that Kontarsky made caused his piano stool to creak on the wooden floor," a difficulty that caused a one-and-a-half-hour delay in the recording of Stockhausen's staccato, rather eerie...
...conquered more than 130 roles, from the giddy 13-year-old Natasha in War and Peace, to the 61-year-old lioness in The Lion in Winter, to the steely title role in Giraudoux's Judith. Her voice is all champagne in the comedies, darkens to cognac in the heavier roles. She is a body actress, ruling the stage with grace and power and actually seeming to lean into her lines...