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...been married eight years. Your sex life is okay but nothing incredible. You have been away on a business trip in Pittsburgh for a week. When you get home, a note from your wife on the door tells you to go to the refrigerator, where you find a chilled martini and another note, directing you to the guest bathroom, where a hot bath awaits you. A note on the towel reads: "You have the most exciting body I have ever seen. If you want to see for yourself why you are the most sensual man in the world, come...
...distant automobile wreck. (Patrick and Gregory, Hemingway's two sons by his second wife, were injured in an auto crash in 1947.) In "Bimini," though, Hudson's confrontation with this tragedy is mercifully kept brief. Most of the section is a summer idyl, drenched in martini golds and Gulf Stream blues, centered around the sons and an only slightly too epic fishing trip on what is clearly Hemingway's famous fishing boat, the Pilar...
That marijuana is the martini of the turned-on generation (or the first step on the road to drug addiction...
A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who has just turned 76, last week propounded an unexpected proposition at a celebratory steak-and-martini luncheon with a group of Washington newsmen. "We find more and more that strikes really don't settle a thing," said the titular head of the American labor movement. "Where you have a well-established industry and a well-established union, you're getting to the point where a strike doesn't make sense." By Meany's reckoning, the right formula in such circumstances is for both sides to submit all unresolved issues...
...Washingtonians intent on a sunny weekend at Chesapeake Bay or the ocean beyond, the clogged approaches to Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge regularly add two or three hours to the Saturday morning journey. When traffic halts, motorists unlimber lunch baskets, folding chairs and martini shakers, and the picnic begins. Kids flip Frisbees while their elders chat. Those dreaded approaches may be the world's longest, narrowest picnic grounds...