Word: sangria
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...average. As unsurprising as a jug of sangria on a summer's day or a teeming dance floor in Ibiza. An average 26-year-old European. Cruz began her globe-trotting as an adolescent. "I knew I was going to be a dancer or an actress," she says. "I knew I wasn't going to be staying in the same place every day because I would go crazy." Like a lot of Europeans of her generation Cruz is on the move, leaving her homeland to further her career but retaining a strong connection to her Spanish roots. Cruz identifies Spain...
...school, but the end of our lives as we have known them doesn't mean that our lives are ending. It doesn't matter that you won't make the "Alumni Notes" section of next spring's Harvard Magazine because, whether you just spent the last two hours vomiting sangria in a Barcelona gutter or making $6,000 on savvy on-line trades, what will matter-the things that will let you wade across the abyss instead of sinking 20,000 leagues under-are your relationships...
...celebrities are drugged up, swaggering, stylized and often foolish. Through Vina and her famous friends, Rushdie shows us how fame is often unfulfilling, lonely and trifling. Andy Warhol's cultured set is brilliantly satirized, as is the delirious glam-rock movement that yielded Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Madonna Sangria is also skillfully caricatured and probably the reason why the real-life Madonna shredded her advance copy of the book...
...Book of Confucius. Quality of life and solitude are good and well while enjoying the fine cheeses and well while enjoying the fine cheeses and wine of France or the sangria and tapas of Spain. But some Harvard students flee from the "good life" and pursue soul seeking under more rugged conditions...
WILD CARD: The Insectarium--part of the lovely Montreal Botanical Gardens--is home to many living and dead ones. And if the sangria, french fries and cheesecake haven't warmed you yet, be sure to participate in an old-fashioned Montreal bug tasting...