Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Club. It was the hour when it is virtually impossible to decide whether a rumba band goes bonkle bonkle tonk, or tonkle tonkle bonk; when waiters' arches ache, and blondes brush the hair out of their eyes in a queenly way. Bogart, who was sipping happily on a drink, decided to send out for two 22-lb. stuffed pandas...
Just about the only sharp disappointment the Communists suffered was in sales of a soft drink called Unita, brewed to replace Coca-Cola, which the Reds have denounced as capitalist poison (TIME, Aug. 22). Unità, which looks like Coke but has a strong flavor of quinine and tamarind, was a flop. Since Communist palates still thirsted for real Coke, the party decided to play it safe. "Comrades," announced a poster, "Coca-Cola was not invented by the Americans, but by the Russians...
...fads and fashions and "date data" is a thick slice of advice. Samples: "How are you going to avoid necking? . . . Simply keep away from the situations that . . . send you into a romantic mood [such as parking] on the shoreline . . . Unless you're absolutely sure how much you can drink safely . . . don't drink on a date." Most of the advice is safe & sound, and many teen-agers who wouldn't take it from their parents seem to accept it from Chi-Chi. (But one irked teen-age boy wrote: "There's nothing wrong with you that...
Medium height (5 ft. 10½ in.) and rangy, Henry is a 34-year-old copy of his father -bristling eyebrows and all. He also has some of his father's food fads (he eats 1,300 eggs a year), doesn't smoke or drink "Never got around to trying"). But he has no interest in politics (he dodges questions about his father because "father gets castrated so often in print") and reads only books or magazines pertaining to his work...
Local bistros also feature video, but experienced hands advise getting a seat at the fountain long in advance and being prepared to drink enough to satisfy the understandably commercialized managements...