Word: gins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never dated; she used to go out with friends in groups," says Herbert. "At parties," says Janson, "she liked Pimm's [a gin-based specialty drink], and she'd stand in the corner with all the rest of the girls, and all the boys would stand at the other end of the room." It was at about this time that she met her future husband. "Prince Charles was the first man she dated," says Herbert. "She was very much head over heels in love...
...memoir, Burning the Days is at once uncannily precise and irritatingly vague. Here, in a small paradigm of exactitude, is the way he capsulizes a friend, Robert Phelps: "He was fond of books; steak tartare; gin from a green bottle poured over brilliant cubes each afternoon at five, the ice bursting into applause; cats; beautiful sentences; Stravinsky; and France." Salter's episodic memoir is studded with such fond remembrances of things, and persons, past: an insouciantly comfortable whore at a chic brothel in Morocco; that aged lion of a writer Irwin Shaw, drawn irresistibly to womanly beauty. "The great engines...
Timothy says that from the age of eight on, he would fix his father a gin-and-tonic after work, and talk with him over hors d'eouvres and carrots before dinner...
...Whitney's cotton gin makes possible the rise of the antebellum South...
Animal foods? Sure, I'll cut out those trashburgers. Booze? What, and risk a clear view of reality? O.K., O.K., I'll cut down, or maybe just switch to a better brand of gin. But coffee? Can't do it. I interviewed Weil a few years ago and found him bright, overflowing with ideas and not at all dogmatic. So when he suggested I might deal with my low-level migraine attacks by taking an herb called feverfew and by giving up coffee, I was willing to try. The feverfew worked--it dilates blood vessels--but the coffee thing didn...