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...jars. And a fifth of Christian Brothers brandy and a fifth of Dark Myers's rum. A small container of nutmeg and two quarts of eggnog...
...wind was as swift as Carl Lewis, as strong as Vasily Alexeyev, and at least for a half, the Quincy House offense was as potent as 151-proof rum...
...Marxist math professor who was Torrijos' bodyguard But Greene's travel writing falters Characters float in and out without explanation and personal relationships are never resolved. Greene's major preoccupation while in Panama, if we may judge from the repeated mention it receives, is the search for a good rum punch But the numerous bad ones seem to have logged his memory Certainly they limited his contact with ordinary Panamamans, who make few appearances in Greene's narrative...
...Victor Jules ("Trader Vic") Bergeron, 81, irascible, ingenious restaurateur who, starting in 1934, parlayed a tiny beer parlor in Oakland, Calif., into a San Francisco-based food and drink corporation grossing $50 million a year and featuring an international chain of 21 restaurants proffering an eclectic South Seas decor, rum drinks garnished with flowers and fruit and an "exotic" cuisine carefully tailored to American middle-brow taste; of a stroke; in Hillsborough, Calif. "You can't eat real Polynesian food," he once protested, calling it "horrible junk." Having lost a leg at age six to tuberculosis...
...simple village priest abroad in the world. In Panama, he was a real-life counterpart. By his own evidence, he served as the go-between in a kidnaping, learned about the hoax of the "Virgin that perspires," failed to write a book about Panama, finally located a well-made rum punch, and saw a "horseman [ride] by carrying a cock on his hand in the way a waiter carries a tray...