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Fleming returned from the intermission wearing a floor-length plaid stole of mixed Scotch-Italian influence, and began a Debussy set with a soaring note in “La Flute de Pan.” The pensive, worried mood of this piece soon segued into the sublimely happy—and rather seductive—love song, “Le Cheverlure.” The third Debussy song, “Le Tombeau des Naides” had a few trills here and there, but was not outstanding overall...
...Churchill was whatever is fitness's opposite. Bush has forsworn the demon drink; when Churchill stayed with Roosevelt in the White House over Christmas 1941, he instructed Roosevelt's butler that he needed a tumbler of sherry in his room before breakfast, a couple of glasses of Scotch and soda before lunch, and French champagne and 90-year-old brandy before he went to sleep. About the only thing they have in common goes between the lips; very occasionally, Bush sneaks out on the Truman balcony of the White House and enjoys a cigar...
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...