Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vodka Chaser. The film that made him famous was 1959's Room at the Top, in which he affected a pudding-thick Yorkshire inflection. In Summer and Smoke he purred in decayed Southern tones, in Wild Side he was a drawl-in' no-good Texas bum, and in Butterfield 8 he was a pale Yalie. This sort of variety is what he likes. "I refuse," he says with a flip of the wrist, "to be myself in films. It's been a long time since I've used my normal voice...
Like a road company version of the boss, the husky, bushy-browed Soviet President displayed the common touch. Waving a glass of vodka at a Soviet Embassy reception, Brezhnev gaily shouted "Down with protocol and long live freedom." The performance did little for protocol but even less for freedom. For a royal banquet at Golestan Palace, Brezhnev specified in advance that proper dress would be a business suit (the Empress appeared in a filmy black gown, without her tiara). He visibly caused raised eyebrows at one dinner by licking his fingers after heaping caviar on a slice of toast. Riding...
...wife and two younger sons. His day begins at 6:00 a.m. with an hour's practice in Chinese calligraphy and painting, and continues in his office until midnight. He likes hiking in the mountains, but since suffering from mild diabetes has had to forgo convivial drinking-mostly vodka. One old friend sees Ching-kuo as "an amalgam of the Chinese tradition and Marxist ideas." What strikes most observers is his strange combination of shyness and power. A Chinese friend perhaps put it best when he said, "Look at his hands-there's the man: coarse, tough, patient...
...European newsmen voted Europe's "player of the year" in 1962. At the victory party, the Dukla coach hoisted a glass of beer and said, "Jsem stastny," meaning, roughly, "I am a happy man." Guest Cox, doubtless thinking of those 15,231 paid admissions, lifted a glass of vodka and said, "Ditto...
Nowadays Evtushenko reads nothing in public. He was recently spotted in a Moscow gastronom buying vodka while his wife Galina pleaded: "You've had too much. It's bad for you. Come home." But drunk or sober, Evtushenko has yet to recant the verse that could well be his epitaph...