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...free of Stalinism. They are also the first generation to grow up with famine, poverty, and war. Impatient at the restrictions that remain to hamper life, they are nevertheless glad to be Soviet citizens in an age of promise. They can drain a glass of vodka with a single swallow. They read every new Russian novel from cover to cover, and they know (in translation) Hemingway and Salinger better than...
...customers may not; they are forced to swallow an awful lot of chokers. He: "Will you marry me?" She: "Why settle for one dish when there's smorgasbord?" But now and then there are some funny lines. There is plenty of fast action, too. And there is Elke Sommer, a blizzard blonde who is just possibly the most important German export since the frankfurter. In Hollywood they call her Elke Seltzer, and she may put a fresh fizz in the neighborhood...
...stock fill an ancient five-story bank vault whose keyholes are hidden behind brass lionheads. In the buff sandstone building at 21 Rue Laffitte that has been home to de Rothschild Freres since 1817, muttonchop-whiskered family ancients line the walls in oil and marble, and ushers wearing black swallow-tailed coats attend the customers, while 300 employees quietly work. Guy de Rothschild occupies a small, white-painted office, which has on display a pastel of Grandfather Alphonse and the signatures of Meyer's five sons...
...letter from Gbenye to the Russians asking for 5 billion in counterfeit Congolese francs to be used to undermine the Congo's currency, and another document requesting arms, tape records and "other espionage equipment." One of the letters bore teeth marks, as if a Russian had tried to swallow...
...both of you catch a whiff of possible anti-Semitism in the air. The irony of it is that Goldwater's following, which must have a largish proportion of people who regard Jews as foreigners and perhaps even as Communists, are quite ready to swallow his Jewishness and like...