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Samogon, which literally means self distilled, had its heyday in the mid 1980s when Mikhail Gorbachev enforced his alcohol reforms which, among other things, restricted sales to certain stories and prohibited restaurants from serving drinks before 2 p.m. It was a mini-Prohibition and, to get their lips on hooch, people were making alcohol with anything they had. One popular recipe suggested putting yeast, sugar and milk into a washing machine, switching it on a two hour cycle and then distilling the result. In rural Russia, peasants drank heart medication because they believed it contained alcohol...
...into a percussive, anthemic epiphany. Portner’s vocal harmonies with Lennox have never sounded better, while the former’s impressive range has always been the signature of the band, the latter’s sheer beauty brings frequent comparisons to the Beach Boys in their heyday. And while both voices have always been put to more instrumental use than is typical in pop music, here they have the trappings of true polish.“My Girls,” the album’s most obvious single, builds toward a sugary, handclap-heavy, altogether nonsensical...
...Where it mostly remains. World War II ended Paris' heyday as the world capital of design, and indeed of the arts generally. Despite a brief renaissance in painting and film in the 1960s, Paris is today a beautiful city with great museums, a glorious past and a lot of visiting New Yorkers...
...third-string quarterback Joey Harrington, who frustrated hoards of Lions faithful during his four-year train wreck as Detroit's starter from 2002 to 2005. Now even Detroit's former whipping boy can poke fun at his ex-team. "It's weird to think I was here in the heyday," deadpanned Harrington, who finished with a sickly 18-37 record as the Lions' quarterback. (Read TIME's top 10 sports moments of the year...
...Jesse’s Girl,” and “Born to Run” all in a row? Where can you whip out that Ginger Spice costume you were too pre-pubescent to pull off during the actual Spice Girl heyday? Where can you watch resident tutors awkwardly pretend that you didn’t spend the last two hours pre-gaming as you trip over your Converse sneakers onto the dance floor? That’s right: the house party. Some people think that once you leave your dorm in Harvard Yard, you?...