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...Hotel d'Angleterre in Copenhagen during a state visit," the count recalls. "Our people rented the suite under his and dismantled all the plumbing. They intercepted his toilet flushings and sent the samples to Paris for analysis." This unpleasant bit of trade craft revealed that Brezhnev, a vodka lover, had suffered severe liver damage. "The old boy didn't last long after that," says the count, raising a magnanimous glass of mineral water to the memory of a former nemesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: A Lunch with France's James Bond | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...about 25 dark ensembles from his White House days. He polishes his own shoes and cowboy boots, taking pride in a collection of special creams and pastes and an electric buffer, which he brandishes like a weapon. He knows all the kitchen gadgets, cleans up the dishes, measures his vodka martinis by eye. Barbara's passion is a special wrapping room with ribbon and paper holders for the endless stream of birthdays that confront them. The walls and tables of the house are covered with paintings and photographs of family and historic White House moments. There is even a Frank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Grandfather in Chief | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

What he'd choose, given a choice of vodka or women: Benjamin Franklin is my role model, and I believe he would take women over vodka. Uh, that means I guess I would do the same...

Author: By Haibin Jiu, | Title: FM Profiles | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...small fee: red wine, white wine (cheapo California vintages), domestic beer, imported beer, vodka, gin, rum, Bailey's, Kahlua, Tequila, whiskey, bourbon, cognac, brandy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Turbulence and Allegies | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...features regularly contain swear words, we used to have a bottle of vodka in our office, and FM writer Seth Mnookin got a tattoo--or tried to--for a Scrutiny. The Crimson lives less dangerously and certainly has no tattoos. Crimson is the good child...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Hey, Mom! FM's Bugging Me! | 11/12/1993 | See Source »

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