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Race officials also were caught by surprise. Many were relaxing at a cocktail party in a Newport mansion when Lelouch radioed back his discovery. Gin-and-tonics were hurriedly abandoned and the officials scurried to the Port O' Call Marina for an unscheduled welcoming ceremony. After Colas docked, Newport Mayor Humphrey ("Harp") Donnelly III popped a bottle of New York champagne and proposed a toast. Colas politely drank the offering, then ducked into Pen Duick's cabin to produce a magnum of Taittinger. Obviously, nearly three weeks at sea had not affected the Frenchman's palate...
...accomplished can be seen in a delicious parody called Death Knocks, Woody's screwball homage to Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. In Allen's piece, the game is not chess but gin rummy, and the role of the crusader is played by Nat Ackerman, a dress manufacturer. Death refuses to pay for his losses. "Why should you need money?" Ackerman inquires. Death: "What are you talking about? You're going to the Beyond-you know how far that is?" Ackerman: "So?" Death: "So where's gas? Where's tolls...
...Webster denies that. He proudly points to Watney's size and prospects: sales last year of $780 million and a predicted rise of 27% in earnings this year, from enterprises that range from 6,000 pubs in Britain to the distilleries that make Gilbey's gin and J. & B. Scotch...
...tour ended three days later with tennis and gin rummy on a Wednesday evening. While Tompkins prudently took the spectator's role, Wilson played tennis with a group of his Memphis business acquaintances, then challenged a friend to cards. Tompkins shuffled as Wilson dealt his way to victory in five straight games...
Here they all are, the rogues, doxies, gin swillers, pickpockets and highwaymen of 18th century London, singing, swaggering and skylarking their way across the stage like an animated Hogarth engraving. "All is human," one of the characters says, and it is the swirling tide of recognizable humanity that has kept this play-with-music so buoyantly alive for almost 250 years...