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...character of all movie comedy teams. In the 1951 Sailor Beware, Jer has been suckered into boxing a much bigger guy. Dean, the kid's trainer, dispenses pre-fight advice (with many sly slaps to the gut and face) while Jer does such an acute impersonation of a punch-drunk pugilist that the tough guy and his team are scared away. In their seemingly artless but perfectly timed badinage, the two are slick, robust and funny funny funny...
...industrialized nations in Rome. During a Feb. 14 news conference, Nakagawa went before the press in what appeared to be an inebriated state. While the cameras rolled, Nakagawa slurred out halting answers to questions, yawned and seemed on the verge of dozing off. He later said he wasn't drunk, blaming his bleary, wobbly performance on jet lag, cold medication and a sip of wine. But the damage was done. Beset by international ridicule and an outraged Japanese public, Nakagawa was forced to resign from his Cabinet post...
Slurred speech. Long pauses. Answering questions that weren't directed to him and blurting out others. For days, Japan's Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa's appearance, during which he appears to be drunk, has been painfully public on the YouTube video of a G7 press conference in Rome last week. Today, it finally cost him his job. At a press conference in Tokyo, he resigned from his cabinet post, delivering yet another blow to the administration of Prime Minister Taro Aso as he struggles to keep control of his party and deal with the country's ever-worsening economic crisis...
...Nakagawa, for his part, has denied that he was drunk in the first place, saying that he was tired, under the influence of cold medicines, and had only "a sip" of wine during the lunch before the G7 press conference. The outraged public, for better or for worse, was not having it. "Japanese are often concerned about negative reactions by other countries," says Shirakawa. "It's a kind of shame." The fact that the press conference was broadcast globally didn't help. "It's not like some tourism minister at some conference in Bermuda getting smashed," says Dujarric. "The economy...
...Unlike the stereotypical moonshine (or samogon, as it's called in Russian), Gusev distills boutique and artisanal spirits, joining the country's homebrew renaissance. He doesn't need to do it. He is educated employed and has access to high-quality alcohol. "I don't do this to get drunk, for me it's a craft, it's an annual project," Gusev said. "The trick is not to wash the apples, there is natural yeast on their skin, which makes them ferment better...