Word: negroni
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...participate more often in organized social activities. Abstainers seem to have a harder time making strong friendship bonds, perhaps because they don't have alcohol to lubricate their social interactions. After all, it's easier to reveal your worst fears and greatest hopes to a potential friend after a Negroni or two. (Read "Should You Drink with Your Kids...
Martin Amis wants a vodka Negroni. It is--for the record--a drink composed of vodka, Campari and sweet vermouth, but the waitress at this rather expensive New York City hotel bar has never heard of it. Meanwhile, a man in a large and loudly beeping truck is trying--over the course of five deafening minutes--to parallel park in the spot right next to Amis' sidewalk table. Amis, 54, observes the scene coolly, a small, neat man, the picture of amused British resignation. If nothing else, he can take satisfaction in the fact that the whole scene, a cosmic...
Amis has a paradoxical gift for lending words to violent men, men who eschew words for blows. "The problem of violence is the human problem," he says, looking conspicuously peaceful as his Negroni finally materializes. "Violence seems the solution to difficulty, whereas history more or less universally tells us that nothing resolved by violence is ever resolved. It's just postponed." --By Lev Grossman
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