Word: stolichnaya
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...real measure of the psychic hurt came in a hundred cocktail parties and reception lines from Canberra to Warsaw, where Moscow's diplomats, military attachés and KGB operatives went to work after a few belts of Stolichnaya vodka. Arabs can't be trusted to do anything right, the Soviets told other customers for their military hardware. In the air and on the ground, the Syrians were "incompetent and cowardly," the Soviets complained. The SAMS are mobile missiles. So what did the Syrians do? They left them in one place, rooted like oaks, and the Israelis knocked...
...Soviet embassy threw its annual celebration of the Revolution of 1917 a few days ago, and the glitterati of Washington swarmed in as usual to the stone box of a building that hunkers down on 16th Street. The vodka was good (Stolichnaya), the few dabs of caviar were superb (from the Volga River) and the guests from the diplomatic corps, Congress, White House and the city at large elbowed each other cheerfully in the chandeliered rooms on the second floor of the elaborate embassy where tsarist Russia set up shop...
...Misha bear, with his Olympic-rings belt, smiles at one from everywhere. He began to get to me after a while - largely because of the mascot's eyes: astonished above the half-moon smile, they become the demented, loopy gaze of someone who has had too much Stolichnaya, the best Soviet vodka, and is about to venture over, buckling slightly at the tummy, and as disarmingly as possible ask for a small loan to get some more...
...chance to increase their market share. But none was so aggressive as the Chinese brand Tsingtao, imported by Monarch Import Co. of New York from the Shandong province of northern China. Monarch took full-page ads in the New York Times offering Tsingtao as a punishing alternative to Stolichnaya and extolling the Chinese vodka's delicate taste, although some drinkers find it harsh. An 80-proof fifth sells for a few cents more than Stolichnaya. The copy of one scrappy ad last week had members of Moscow's Politburo smirking confidently that Americans would not "give up Russian...
...talk of boycotting Soviet spirits, however, there is not much evidence that sales are seriously falling. Some retailers claim that they are selling even more Stolichnaya by the case to hoarders who fear a permanent cutoff, or by the pint to those who dare not use it for entertaining. Ironically, one merchant noted that a brand left on the shelf in his store was Smirnoff, a domestic vodka distributed by Heublein. Says he: "People think it is Russian and they are refusing...