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...most surprising unevenness is in the drinks. Order a Bloody Mary straight-up in the bar, and you will get a weak one in a stem glass; ask for it in the lounge, and you draw a powerful potion in a highball glass. A gimlet in the bar at lunch had a barely perceptible level ofalcohol, and a meager pouring of premium Scotch was overpowered by ice. In a restaurant that began as a speakeasy and is proud of it, such vagaries are disquieting...
Herzog's compatriots, gimlet-eyed burghers such as Volker Schlondorff, Wim Wenders and the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder, made their mark by refracting the cynical spirit of postwar Germany through a lens as hip as the new Hollywood's. Herzog renounces the rubble and babble of his homeland; none of his nine fiction features is wholly set there. Instead, he is drawn to legends and nightmares. In Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973), a Spanish officer of the 16th century dreams of conquering South America and ends up alone on a raft, blithe and demented, lording it over...
...have gimlet," Robert Wilson told...
...have a gimlet, too. I need something." Macomber's wife told...
Their specialty is surprise, and they delight in what might be called ambush humor: make them laugh when they least expect it. In one skit, Suzanne, a very leggy blonde, sits down at a bar and orders a gimlet. Monty, pretending he is gay, persuades her that he is now ready to try women, all but writing a sonnet to the female sex. Finally she gives in. "You should try a woman," she says. "In fact," she adds before rushing away, "I'm going to do the same thing...