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...discreet peek from behind freshly painted shutters. A voice murmurs to come around into the garden. Suddenly, we could be in Miami. American rock plays softly; red and blue lights color a trimly clipped lawn. Our host offers a hamburger, steak, perhaps a lobster? Red or white wine? A rum collins...
...many other Cubans, tourism is a pact with the devil. They remember how they felt exploited by rich foreigners before 1959. At the Tuxpan disco, the only Cubans allowed in are pubescent girls dressed in scanty Lycra minis who have bartered their company to rum-swilling tourists for a meal. It makes Julio Gonzalez angry even as he takes their money...
...small fee: red wine, white wine (cheapo California vintages), domestic beer, imported beer, vodka, gin, rum, Bailey's, Kahlua, Tequila, whiskey, bourbon, cognac, brandy...
Shilts refutes the assertion with some vivid reporting. He digs up a long- buried Navy study that found no correlation between sexual behavior and job performance. Winston Churchill's era of "rum, sodomy and the lash" has given way to unofficial evenings in gay on-board clubs, special newsletters, travel guides and lubricants formulated in ships' pharmacies...
...rum! Red rum! [Crash, screaming, wild music.] Honey, I'm home! [More screaming, wild music, sound of axe hitting door.] Heeeeeeere's Johnny! [Wild music building to crescendo...