Word: tonic
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...ascend purposefully and without pause to the rim and accept the silent admiration of the tourists there, who step back to let you pass. And you stride into the lodge and go to your room and shower and put on clean clothes and order a hero-size gin and tonic and sit on the balcony and look out at the canyon blazing red and orange in the sunset, and you feel a moral superiority that only time can diminish. What is a vacation for, if not to make you feel better about yourself...
...Last week he used the luxurious house as a romper room, giggling at the bald head of his other grandfather Rolando, who had worn a shaggy wig in a video the family had sent to Elian in the U.S., telling the boy that doctors had discovered a miraculous hair tonic...
...indeed a phenomenon. A former Coca-Cola executive, he has brought to Mexican politics a new, effervescent tonic--change. Everywhere Fox travels, he's greeted with the same shrieking enthusiasm, the same glowing faces and the same optimism. He is a masterly campaigner. Can he win? One of the benefits of the 71-year reign of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) is that it controls the levers of Mexico's political machine, which makes Fox something of an outside chance. But even if he doesn't beat out the P.R.I.'s candidate--the decidedly less macho Francisco Labastida Ochoa--this...
...family name, Sonnenschein, translates as Sunshine, and its bearers at first prosper in turn-of-the-20th-century Budapest, selling an herbal tonic with that cheerful word emblazoned on the bottles. But they are Jews in an endemically anti-Semitic society. By the end of Istvan Szabo's three-hour epic, which traces the family's decline through three historical epochs--the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Nazism and communism--the irony of his title is almost unbearable. There is little sunshine in Sunshine, only degradation...
Gump, like many other parents, sticks to "places with lots of kids' activities." The top family destinations are theme parks, beaches and historic sites. That sounded awful. Whatever happened, I wondered, to that kids' activity of my youth: playing quietly while your mother enjoys a gin and tonic on the hotel porch before dinner...