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...Hampshire, Shakespeare wrote of a "setter up and plucker down of kings," a role that the Granite State has, with variations, assumed to itself. Since 1952, in fact, setting up and plucking down Presidents has been a cottage industry in New Hampshire, along with summer camps and maple syrup. By holding the nation's earliest primary, New Hampshire sought and got an outrageous amount of press attention, partly because there is not much other news in February, partly because presidential politicking is a peculiarly American disease...
...brought coca to earth from his father, the sun. The Indians used it to dull their hunger, cold and weariness. (When Georgia Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, he included small amounts of cocaine to "cure your headache" and "relieve fatigue," but the drug was eliminated from the syrup shortly after 1900.) Colombia's role in the coke trade is middleman and processor. At kitchen labs dotted around the country, coca leaves brought in from all over the Andes are distilled into a paste and then converted into a base (150 lbs. of leaves make 1 lb. of base...
...setting are three glasses: a big one for beer and two shot-size glasses that will briefly contain mao-tai, a colorless 160-proof liquor that could power China's first moon shot, and a red, rice-based wine that tastes like a blend of Campari and cough syrup. The beer, bitter and warm, is served immediately and may be immediately sipped. The mao-tai and the wine, however, are reserved for toasts, which soon ensue, copiously, capaciously and loquaciously. Most are raised - and why not? - to Friendship Between Our Peoples. One of the first words the F.F. learns...
...than he does in photographs; the face is less mephistophelian and more delicate--gentle, almost vulnerable. "I don't have anything to say," he begins, "but I'll answer any questions." His voice is higher than one would expect, viscous and slighly drawly, the vocal equivalent of the corn syrup produced in his native Kansas. For over an hour Altman answers questions from the 30-odd reporters sitting in front of him. He responds patiently and candidly, even when faced with questions he's obviously answered a hundred times in a hundred interviews. Below, some of Altman's responses...
...looked around, I had the warm feeling that I was back in high school, hanging out. One of IHOP's greatest features is that they are all identically tacky, so that all are familiar and safe. From the spreading pool of artificially colored and flavored boysenberry syrup that eventually leaves the table purple and gooey, to the clashing blue and orange of the seats and ceiling, IHOP's are always the same...