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...just discovered a new taste sensation: try chewing on some regular-flavored Extra sugar-free gum before diving into your White Rum ice cream from Herrell's, and you wind up with a taste that smacks vaguely of--yum--mayonnaise...
...although its five league losses probably takes it out of title contention (the three league leaders have one loss each), the Crimson can start playing the role of spoiler. And although beating the best (versus being the best) may not be comparable to a Reggie Jacksonesque World Series home rum, it is still a blast...
...Dragons Are Singing Tonight, by Jack Prelutsky (Greenwillow; $15). They sure are, in rum-tiddly-pum verse designed for surefire (no trick at all, for dragons) recitation. Sample: "I'm bored with my bad reputation/ For being a miserable brute/ And being routinely expected / To brazenly pillage and loot." On reflection, however, he decides that "since I can't alter my nature,/ I guess I'll just terrify you." Ferocious dragonographics by illustrator Peter...
...wonder why we cannot find more signs of brewing revolt. Cubans have a genius for adapting, we are told. Cubans are law abiding and have no taste for civil disobedience. Cubans are happy "if they have one plate of food and a bottle of rum," says restaurateur Octavio. Cubans don't believe in any ism but paternalism. "The state has provided for 30 years," says Blanco. "That's not the case anymore, but half the population has not adapted to reality...
Those who do not love Fidel have few options: wait until he dies, or flee. Ricardo and Raul are scheming to escape by sea, when they are not drunk on bootleg rum. Quaffing cocktails and beer at Ernest Hemingway's old haunt, La Bodeguita del Medio in Old Havana, they rail against the system, unconcerned that they might be overheard. At 21, Ricardo is just out of prison after serving a nine-month term: he got drunk and spat on a statue of independence hero Jose Marti. Now he is officially a nonperson and unable to find...