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Crabmeat for Vasya. The government has tried and abandoned a succession of incentive plans. When waiters got a percentage of each individual check, they pushed vodka at the expense of food, despite a government campaign against alcoholism. Last week the government tried again with a new plan permitting waiters to divide 20% of the restaurant's total monthly income from food. In the first days of the plan's operation, service was nearly as bad as ever. Said one doleful Pole: "The only way to get a decent meal in Warsaw is to patronize a private restaurant operated...
Nonwhisky liquors have also bounced up, nearly doubling their market share since 1949 to 23%. The reason again is mildness: odorless, light-bodied vodka has jumped from virtually nothing to 6% of liquor sales. Scotch and Canadian whiskies have sliced into U.S. distillers' markets until imports are 13% of total liquor sales...
...Hlasko bitterly, "that Warsaw that was for so many years a city without a smile; it was not I who made the Warsaw in which people trembled with fear; it was not I who made the Warsaw in which the greatest treasure of the poor was a bottle of vodka; it was not I who made the Warsaw in which a girl was cheaper than a bottle of vodka-it was that Warsaw that made...
...midnight, when Bea Lillie, alias Lady Peel, arrived, the party reached its peak. Someone peeled off his dinner jacket; someone else pushed him into the pool. A fully dressed couple staged an underwater race. The bar closed at 2 a.m., but 35 cases of whisky, gin, beer, champagne, vodka, sherry had given the party enough momentum to last till...
...spring of 1940. Cooped up in the same fleabag hotel with him is Colonel Tadeusz Boleslaw Prokoszny (Curt Jürgens), a class-conscious Polish nobleman who lives like the last tassel in the dying lunatic fringe of men dedicated to the proposition that women are to be loved, vodka is to be drunk, war is to be lived and honor is to be died for -preferably all in the same moment. Together they make a team whose picaresque adventures betray a desperation cloaked in human warmth, a cry of anger hidden in humor...