Word: ouzo
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...offer Hughes Rudd one bottle of ouzo for each drop of Greek blood that he can find in the veins of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, formerly a Prince of Greece [Nov. 1]. "Phil the Greek" aside, the Greek royal family is a junior branch of the Danish royal house, which is mostly North German in origin. Ergo, Philip is not one of your restaurant Greeks be cause he is not of Greek descent - as Mr. Rudd will have...
...false charmistice when her middle-class mother (Mildred Natwick) arrives. Before long, they are joined by a randy reprobate of a neighbor (Charles Boyer) known as "the Bluebeard of Tenth Street." Bluebeard leads the way to an Albanian hash house that serves such delicacies as black salad and ouzo. The foursome eventually wend their way home, whereupon Fonda and Redford drunkenly declare...
...Alluringly gowned and ungowned, Mercouri has enough dramatic electricity in a finger snap to have prevented the Great Power Blackout of 1965. Her voice is a husky cousin to Marlene Dietrich's, but even amplification does not always make it audible. The character she plays, a kind of ouzo-and-sympathy doxy, is unsalvageable since joyous sweet-souled prostitutes are about as believable nowadays as jolly...
Sort of a sippin' cousin to Greek ouzo or Turkish raki, pastis is a golden thirst quencher from the south of France that combines alcohol, herbs, licorice and anise and is mixed with water; the name in Provencal dialect literally means "mess." More than 350 brands are available, but Frenchmen usually call for a Ricard. As a result, Ricard Inc. has become the biggest aperitif maker in France, last year produced 30.6 million bottles, with sales of $66 million...
...while the temperature hovered near 90°, Athenians lounged at the beaches, sipped iced ouzo in cafes, and only the straw-hatted tourists defied the heat, toiling up to the Acropolis to commune with history. By night, the history was happening down below...