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...younger classes drink gin, scotch, vodka and some bourbon," Murphy said. While Harvard celebrators drink mostly scotch and bourbon, their counterparts at Wellesley prefer gin, and at Boston University drink a lot of blended whiskey, he added...
...security-trained servants for the power-elite." Politburo members and national secretaries of the Communist Party use black Zil limousines, hand-tooled and worth about $75,000 each. A network of unmarked stores caters to the Soviet aristocracy. Its stock: rare czarist delicacies like caviar, smoked salmon, export vodka and exotic wines, choice meats. Those stores also carry foreign goods the proletariat never sees: French cognac, American cigarettes, Japanese tape recorders-all at discounts. Including relatives, Smith estimates, these indulged shoppers amount to several million. Everything is maskirovannoye (masked) -the guilty secrets of privilege...
...unique character of Russians - their glazed and hostile public faces that dissolve in private in almost alarming conviviality. Their sentimentality and love of children - the obsessive way in which a babushka watches a child in a playground to make sure its rump never touches the snow. Their alcoholism - vodka bottles come with tear-off metal tops, and the bottle, once opened, must be finished. Their chilling fear of strangers and even friends - the result of long experience with informers...
...there, which is really a drag. But you get used to those kind of things. You learn to tolerate them," Schecter says. although he didn't like some of the food, Schecter says, he cultivated--as a young teen-ager in a strange land--a taste for caviar and vodka while there...
...oppressiveness of the Soviet bureaucracy. When they are finally given an apartment after waiting week for an opening, the family finds itself at the mercy of UpDK, the organization which supposedly handles the needs of foreigners--Leona Schecter had to bribe the UpDK carpenters with an agreed amount of vodka to get them to repair her apartment. While most Soviet citizens sincerely sing praises of communism, like the carpenters they are never ones to spurn the occasional niceties of capitalism that may float their...