Word: rum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...premiere of Laurence Olivier's version of Chekhov's The Three Sisters, Sam had dropped Anne a line, asking her to see it with him. While waiting for her at the cinema, Sam fortified himself at the next-door pub with two pints of bitter and a rum-and-Coke. Wasn't he nervous? "She's like any other bird, really," he gulped. When Anne turned up, though, and proffered her hand, Sam kissed it -strictly not done with royalty, and certainly not the customary greeting for birds in the East...
...that friendship-is the fact that trade between the two nations jumped 26.5% in 1969 and will increase again this year. In addition to cotton, yarn and rice, Egypt now sells the Russians a wide variety of other products. Moscow stores this year, for example, are stocking Egyptian rum and brandy as well as large, expensive Egyptian furniture that barely fits into many Moscow apartments...
...they dance and sing with their enemies. The myth of alcoholic "disinhibition," as the book awkwardly describes it, can no more account for this reversal than for the inebriated conduct of the Aritama of northern Colombia. A morose and self-conscious tribe, the Aritama only grow more so on rum, their favorite potable. "All conversation stops," report the authors, "and gloominess sets...
Time Difference. According to the eleven surviving participants, the party was sedate. They said that there was no heavy drinking, but a good deal of casual ambling around the cottage. Kennedy said that he had two rum and Cokes. Mary Jo consumed a small amount of alcohol. The inquest also confirmed why Rosemary Keough's purse, and not Mary Jo's, was later found in the Senator's submerged car. Miss Keough, it seemed, had accompanied Charles Tretter, one of Kennedy's friends, on a trip back to Edgartown for a radio earlier in the evening, and had left...
...since," he has said. His experiences there were eventually transformed into a tenderly comic novel, just published in the U.S. after three years of enormous success in Latin America. It has survived export triumphantly. In a beautiful translation, surrealism and innocence blend to form a wholly individual style. Like rum calentano, the story goes down easily, leaving a rich, sweet burning flavor behind...