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...hotel's philosophy, Hiscock says, is to give guests something a little different from the minibar-and-flat-screen experience so familiar from their business trips. Which means no minibar chilling tiny bottles of vodka and $5 peanuts, just an "honesty fridge" stuffed with San Miguel, lemon sodas and ice cream. No bells-and-whistles entertainment system, but a TV discreetly placed in each room and a library of children's DVDs to choose from. And in the restaurant, no culinary chemistry of foams or jus, just a beautifully simple $42 four-course dinner that makes liberal...
...openly alcoholic Kingsley Amis published the book On Drink, which included several self-researched hangover cures such as beef paste and vodka, baking soda and vodka and several other mixtures involving vodka. Amis also mused on what he called the "metaphysical hangover," in which physical ailments are replaced with nagging feelings of regret and self-loathing. Unfortunately the only cure for the metaphysical hangover is a lot of self-pity and maybe an album by the Cure...
...climber with a penchant for extravagant parties, Jay Gatsby would fit right in at any of Harvard’s social organizations for fine young gentlemen. Of course, if Jay Gatsby were at Harvard, his “parties” would consist of chugging half a fifth of vodka and hooking up with Daisy’s blockmate on a pool table at the Spee. Which is to say there are about a thousand Jay Gatsbys at Harvard. Character: Ignatius J. Reilly—“A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole Caricature: Harvard...
...years, I didn’t discover this personal deficiency until Camp Harvard. Along with a marauding band of fellow ingénues, I arrived in a Mather suite eager, like Lisel von Trapp, to taste my first champagne. Somewhat serendipitously, it came in the form of a cheap vodka shot handed to me by a particularly urbane senior boy with whom I fell immediately and irrevocably in love. But alas, breaking out into hives does not a good seduction tactic make, so I woke up alone in the morning, regretful, excuseless, and still slightly itchy...
When methadone was first proposed for the treatment of heroin addiction, it sounded like a pointless gambit - sort of like substituting vodka for gin. That's enabling addicts, critics said, not helping them...