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...promotional events held at various clubs and bars around Moscow and St. Petersburg. Stunning college-age women wearing Hooch's signature green T-shirts pass out free bottles and merchandise while running games, races, raffles, and dance contests. It's the Hooch version of a Labor Day picnic. Others consist merely of men and women chugging Hooch while someone of the opposite sex holds the bottle. Perhaps the most bizarre event however, involves two people who have rubber hoses tied around their waists with a bottle of Hooch hanging off the end. The race...
...employ a tired idiom, a picture's worth a thousand words, and Salts Restaurant boasts a picture that perfectly encapsulates its essence. Hanging on the warm, yellow stuccoed walls is a small painting of a woman, muted by broad impressionistic brushstrokes. Rather than sitting demurely at a picnic in 19th century Paris, however, the lady is dressed stylishly in black, perched on an elegant futon. She has a telephone cradled in one hand and a cigarette dangling from the other. The image is a perfect one for Salts, a place where haute-bourgeois society meets its modern yuppie analog...
...Rudolph, she recalls, was so bright and attentive in class that he could pass exams "without ever reading a textbook." He harbored "very extreme views" but was quiet and something of a loner. When other kids would go to a local lake to picnic and swim with family or friends, they would see him there by himself...
...different taxing jurisdictions in the U.S., and the diffuse nature of cyberspace makes Internet commerce uniquely vulnerable to conflicting and overlapping tax claims. But the nightmare scenarios are nothing new. Ask General Motors or Federal Express if 50 states and thousands of counties and cities add up to a picnic for them. The mail-order houses used to insist, until last week, that collecting all these different sales taxes was logistically impossible. But that alleged problem seems to have disappeared. If anything, totally computerized cybercommerce should find it easier to handle such complexities. And the very nonmateriality of cyberspace should...
Yeah, but not in Sam's case--unless you thought of him as a sort of Charles Ives, drawing on the vernacular only to subvert it with a big, blatting off-key note. Like the brave soldier who spreads his battlefield picnic on a fallen foe's body; the beautiful blond whose wig falls off in a fight to reveal a perfectly bald pate; the western hero who coolly plugs his lover when the bad guy tries to use her as a shield in a gun fight. Sam didn't strain for these bold, indelible moments. They just came naturally...