Word: scotchness
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What Sheriff had at home was a comfortable life, an actress wife he adored and a passionate thing on the side with vodka and Scotch. Then his wife suddenly dies, and in despair he buries with her the manuscript and all the computer discs of his novel. Soon after, he is drafted by Great Uncle to produce a novel--in just 31 days--that will be published in the West under the dictator's name, all to dramatize the suffering of his nation under Western-imposed sanctions. Driven half-mad by the assignment, which he knows is the ultimate command...
...whole semester started to make sense to me the second time my dad called the state police. “If you keep the container of Scotch closed in the trunk and you get pulled over, not that you will get pulled over, but if you do get pulled over and your car is searched, you are not violating either Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Vermont law,” he reported back. This after his first call had gone unreturned. Unfortunately, his doggedness had been unnecessary...
...It’s not a problem,” I said. [Pause.] “I mean, we drank it.” I pondered adding this: people I’ve never met came to a party that I threw in your apartment and drank your expensive Scotch when we ran out of cheap beer and mixers. But I refrained...
...mean having a series of fairly common formative experiences and wearing a lot of polar fleece. It meant choosing carefully. So I missed out on lasagna. It’s okay. I have my mother’s recipe. Besides, I don’t think my parents serve Scotch at those parties anyway...
...Petersburg. Everything in his later career was based on that fundamental dance vocabulary, but he stretched it, opened up its gestures, added more jumps and turns, and gave it a startling new speed, clarity and sharpness of attack. He thought nothing of blending it with highland reels (Scotch Symphony, 1952) or stylized Japanese movements (Bugaku, 1963) or whatever other genre took his fancy...