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Making statements about Leo Tolstoy is like pouring a fifth of vodka into the Volga. Academic theses, the complex configurations of criticism, even psychology's intimate probes are quickly engulfed by Tolstoy's turbulent, enigmatic genius...
...Rich, landed and titled in a country where rural life still turned on the relationship of serf to master, Tolstoy could indulge his appetites without fear of rebuke. As a 22-year-old volunteer, he fought rebel tribesmen in the Caucasus, wenched, gambled, and tossed off cocktails made of vodka, gunpowder and congealed blood. But he also kept a list of puritanical Rules of Life, which he usually updated during the tormented periods of guilt that almost always followed his revels. Even his searing self-rebuke often seemed gluttonous. He was, says Troyat in one of the book...
...first glimpse last week of a Russian jetliner that figures to become a regular visitor. Into Washington's Dulles International Airport-and later into airports at Philadelphia and New York, flew an Ilyushin-62 fan jet laden with caviar, vodka and souvenirs for American reporters and dignitaries. Purpose of the visit was to pass U.S. airworthiness and noise-abatement tests preliminary to the introduction, long delayed by cold war vicissitudes, of nonstop flights between New York and Moscow...
Like Any Other Shop. Distillers credit women with increased sales of vodka, rum, aperitifs, bottled cocktails and cocktail mixes. Even the trend to lighter Scotches is due partly to surveys showing that women think pale Scotch has a "nice" color. "Women walk into a liquor store today like any other shop," says Seagram's Tabbat, but they want the stores neat and convenient, and package-goods stores have spruced up as a result. Some distillers think drinking women have even increased male moderation. A man who might tipple too much alone or with other men tends to drink sensibly...
...developed a blood disease that causes frequent nosebleeds, and fogging out. What mainly sustains him nowadays is the heady thrill of success, the joy of being called upon to create bigger and more exciting monuments-and alcohol. He consumes at least half a bottle of Old Crow or vodka...