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...Leningradsky Prospekt. The place to buy women's goods, such as lipstick, lingerie and dresses, is inside the public toilet two blocks from the Bolshoi Theater. On a side street near the Moscow Planetarium, fartsovshchiki (black marketeers) have set up an underground supermarket, dealing in everything from gin to chewing gum, jeans and Western pop records. One of the hottest selling items in any market is information. Some hustlers charge one or two rubles for "a sentence." The mysterious sentence: a valuable tip-off that an item in short supply will be delivered to a certain shop the following...
...costs and put only one or two additional pounds into the hands of the average family of four. That is not likely to impress most people, who flocked to pubs last week to drink up before the new taxes went into effect, and laid in cases of Scotch and gin to beat the $1.10 increase on each bottle...
...decay is creeping in on Cambridgeport from the other direction as well, Caragianes says. Driving into Central Square, he points to barroom after barroom. "There's an oversaturation of gin mills and fast food places," he says...
Statia has two of the pleasantest inns on the islands, the Moushay Bay Publick House and the Old Gin House, facing on Gallows Bay. They are in fact a single entity, across the road from each other, with guests flowing to and fro, and a total of 23 rooms. Four-course dinners deftly blend West Indian, Continental and American cuisine. The owners plan to expand their Inns of Gallows Bay with three additional connected buildings. Other hotels are sure to follow. Also with an eye to tourism, the Dutch government is funding restoration of historic ruins. As they...
...rather looked as though the Raj had returned to In'ja. Once more the Union Jack fluttered over Delhi's posh Roshanara Club, while pukka sahib types bowled on the cricket pitch. The bar of the Calcutta Light Horse, a regiment founded a century ago, was pink gin-deep in British officers. Some of them, though, looked film-familiar: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore and Trevor Howard. The pseudo sahibs were shooting The Sea Wolves, about a daring 1943 attack on a German communications ship anchored off Goa. How did it feel to re-create the days...