Word: scotches
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YELL-OH PAGES: When Vickie Nam was growing up in Pittsford, New York, she says, "I used to use Scotch tape and stick it across my eyelid, to emulate what I thought was white American beauty. I used to dye my hair, wear colored contacts, the gamut, in order for me to feel like I was successful in blending into my environment." That environment included few Asian-American girls like herself. Now, at 26, she is determined to make heard the voices of Asian-American girls. Nam is the editor and moving force behind "Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore...
...that vantage point. He became a Canadian Mencken, caustically attacking separatists and French language supremacists. But he could also go to Waugh, matching in his best fiction?from The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) to Barney's Version (1997)?the work of contemporaries Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. The Scotch drinking, Schimmelpenninck cigar-smoking Mordecai was never a follower of stylish food fads. Dine with him in a deli and order a pastrami lean, and Mordecai would tell the waiter, "Bring me his fat." Our lives will all be a little leaner without...
...knew there wasn't a book there. I either had to go home--which I couldn't do because my friends had thrown me a big going-away party--or I had to figure out something else. I went into Saratoga Springs and bought a bottle of Scotch. How could I have spent two years working on something with so little value...
...time, intensity, effort, and emotional turmoil he had poured into the business of pursuing and bedding women. For most of his life, Wilson had been a sexually frisky, not to say omnivorous lover. This seemed improbable for a man shaped like a beachball, given to drinking whole fifths of scotch, and capable of astonishing feats of free-lance erudition that made him, as people said, the last great American man of letters. Now he wondered what it all meant...
...Lyndon Johnson adopted an interestingly amphibious approach to day and night. He stayed up late, to drink Scotch, or to choose bombing targets for missions over North Vietnam. Next day after lunch he would act as if it were bedtime. He would yawn, put on his pajamas, get into bed, and go to sleep. When he awoke, his body, much refreshed, thought it was time to start another day. Greedy Lyndon lived two days in the space of one. Guns and butter...