Word: tequilas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FOCOLARE. Midst elegant accouterments, including thick wine-colored carpets, long, flowing cerise draperies and pillowed armchairs, rather ordinary Mexican fare (chicken, tacos and enchiladas) gains a magical allure. The mariachi music from the Cafe Alameda below and a tequila-spiked margarita add to the enchantment...
...wears black leather suits, white hunter's outfits and long striped muu muus. He has a tawny Anglo-Iranian girl named Zoë: with him. He has also made the happy discovery of raicilla, a 180-proof distillate of the maguey plant that is far more potent than tequila. "If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine," says Burton...
...charmer. This sets a zany subplot in motion: Can a lonely New Jersey pill popper who sleeps on a board find enduring happiness with an ebullient Hungarian gourmet who sleeps on a rug? It takes an uproarious culinary trek to Staten Island and several draughts of ouzo, the Greek tequila, to resolve this dilemma. Meanwhile, Corie and Paul have a lallapalouzo of a spat. Corie's mother primes a happy last-act curtain with some classic advice on how to hold a man: "Make him feel important. If you do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful...
...coat with heavily padded shoulders. To passing wolf packs of mufti-clad U.S. marines and sailors, he calls in an inviting voice: "Hey, Meester! Want to see nice French movies? Nice exhibition? You want nice girls?" "Take It off" The "good time" joints feature underlighted interiors, watered rum, tequila, gin and vodka of local manufacture, adulterated whisky, and tiny bottles of beer that cost 50? apiece...
...beauty-parlor walls, waiting and listening to the hum of electric clippers and dryers. Young wives come in fashionable maternity middy blouses, push wire carts through the aisles of bright supermarkets, squeeze cellophane-wrapped loaves of Bimbo bread and Bimbollos (rolls). Husbands buy bottles of the new, high-quality tequila (from the modernized distilleries in the town of Tequila, 35 miles away) and Sangrita, a tequila chaser made of a secret formula of tomato juice, lime juice, orange juice, sugar, salt, pepper, chilies and spices. The couples watch carefully as automatic cash registers whir up the week's purchases...