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...that minority of tormented adolescents whose members grow up to write novels about the pain of puberty, not the joy. Films of the traditional sort did not risk truthtelling, largely because of the hoodoo of sex. What they gave us was Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland sipping one soda through two straws. The suggestion that Judy wore a bra, and that Mickey might have wanted to unhook it, would have been so unthinkable that to mention it, even now, seems boorish...
Despite such exotic bottles from which to quaff, connoisseurs sometimes actually prefer the ordinaire. In a blind taste test of ten waters, organized by New York Times Food Critic Craig Claiborne, all five judges ranked Canada Dry Club Soda-a nonmineral beverage containing "sodium bicarbonate, sodium citrate and artificial flavoring" -as one of their top three selections. Some of the other top choices were strictly all-American: Poland Sparkling Water from Maine, Deer Park from a babble of springs in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and Saratoga Vichy from Saratoga Springs...
...sausages. Drinks include hot tea, vodka, or Coca-Cola and its orange-flavored cousin, Fanta, dispensed by strolling vendors through a tube from a backpack tank. (Pepsi-Cola has been available in the U.S.S.R. for six years, but Coke won the Olympic bidding.) Not to be outdone in the soda race, the Soviets have invented their own Olympic drink, Druzhba, a cranberry-apple concoction...
...cream parlor sitters return to Bailey's, that venerable institution on Brattle St. Closest to an old-fashioned soda fountain, Bailey's sports tables and the most sumptious sundaes in the Square...
Social historians will date the decline of the cocktail party from the summer of 1975, when chic people first asked for "a little white wine with soda and ice," instead of the traditional rum, whisky or gin. The reasons for this shift are obscure. It is usually said that Americans became tired of being blasted out of their heads by strong drink, but this makes little sense. The only point of a cocktail party was to take leave of the senses, it being universally understood that nobody in his right mind would want to be present at one ... A likelier...