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...paintings, like the posters, propagate the myth of a land of joy and plenty. In one, a pair of beaming workers quaff foamy beers beside a table strewn with apples and grapes, while a foundry glows behind them. Others have a Norman Rockwell sweetness to them: an adolescent girl bids farewell to her younger brother as she heads off to military camp; an elderly railway worker strolls along a posy-lined track beside an idyllic stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heaven on Earth | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

Show your school pride at the Harvard-Yale game with the Crimson Royale, a versatile quaff equally fit for drinking at a tailgate, pre-gaming for breakfast or celebrating with a victory toast. Enjoy this festive and sweet champagne cocktail all day long. The cranberry and orange flavors are perfect seasonal flavors for the waning fall days. Try any orange-flavored liqueur like Grand Mariner or Cointreau. Cranberry liqueurs, which are mostly produced in North America, are slightly more obscure but well worth the effort. Look for locally manufactured brands. And of course, buy a little extra champagne for celebrating...

Author: By Alice O. Wong, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Drinky-Drink | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

...These are the wild and wacky Hash House Harriers, part jogging group, part frat party?and self-described "drinking club with a running problem." "Hashers" trot and sprint together not just for exercise but to socialize and banter (in their own arcane jargon), and to quaff copious amounts of beer that cancel out the very health benefits they gain from running. Many people?mostly expatriates? find the mix appealing, and "hash" chapters have mushroomed in cities worldwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Beer Doesn't Run Out | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...serve up. It's a psychological drama that charts the wrenching of her separate attraction for two very different men, and she gets to cry rather than squeal. "This is the best work I have ever done," allows the actress, sipping a glass of red wine, her favored quaff, in a trendy Hong Kong bar. "I'm seeing a different self in the film. It's so real, so much more genuine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shu Perstar! | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...excluding bamboo bungalow rooms that range from $6 to $45 a night), the Spa at Samui's eastern Lamai beach offers nothing less than the elixir of youth. With promises of "a longer and happier life," derivative traders, TV producers, flight attendants and other visitors swallow herbal nutrition tablets, quaff detoxifiers and regularly flush their insides. The talk over laxative tea runs from the latest stock fluctuations to?I'm not joking?the day's excreta. The guest book includes testaments to changed lives and?I wish I were joking?photos of half-meter-long expunged intestinal parasites. In addition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of the Perfect Cleansing in Thailand | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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