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...General Principles," including one that read, "The ends justify the means." The agency was the self-expression of a man who got up at 4:30 a.m., was in bed by 8:30 p.m., and whose idea of an acting disguise (for himself) was as a "jovial, friendly" social drinker. "I must get my way in all things," he once confessed firmly, showing a taste for the fanatic in himself and others (symptomatically, he regarded Abolitionist John Brown as "greater than Napoleon and just as great as George Washington"). Trying his hand as an espionage agent for the North...
...wanderings, Onassis is only a superficial sophisticate. His humor has a peasant strain. One of his favorite jokes describes "the noisiest thing in the world?two skeletons making love on a tin roof." A hardheaded Scotch drinker (only at night), he has smashed upwards of $700 worth of crockery in bouzouki establishments, and has been known to snore in a La Scala opera box during a Callas première. Even his fellow Greek shipping kings long dismissed him as a crude upstart. Says one acquaintance: "He was trash to some Greeks, the way old Joe Kennedy was trash to some...
...chat about the things people always talk about in bars. "How are they treating you at Grumman," one man says to another as they sip their Schlitz and Schaffer. "Not bad, but I'm not going anyplace," he replies. A little further down the rubbed wood bar, a scotch drinker banters with the barmaid, asking how she likes the heat. "Most of the time it's not too bad," she says tossing her bobbed head. "I have a very nice apartment with a fan." The man looks at her pensively for a moment and then returns to his drink...
Even Match. Beset by a whole choreography of fears ("Every man his own Laocoon"), hardly able to leave his room. Wilderness half holds himself together by one purpose. The final objective of his Mexican pilgrimage is to see an old friend named Juan Fernando Martinez, fellow drinker and philosopher, who mirrors like some doomed twin the life-death forces at war in Wilderness. The ending is both pat and heartfelt. When Wilderness discovers that Juan Fernando had died six years before, he is redeemed into a kind of rebirth, and the novel fades on wheat fields ripening...
Only a hardy aficionado still downs tequila the traditional way-with a preliminary pinch of salt and a slice of lime. For thirsty Americans, however, the Mexican ritual is too time-consuming and ritualistic: the drinker sucks the lime, licks the salt from the back of his thumb, and only then tosses back the tequila. Número uno for the American tequila fans is the Margarita, a cocktail made with lime juice, Cointreau or Triple Sec and tequila, all poured over shaved ice and served in a frosty glass rimmed with salt. To push tequila into the really...