James Joyce would have preferred a choice of brandies in decanters made by Tiffany's, but
rotgut was the shortcut to epiphanies.
George Starbuck
When the master went away, I figured he was playing poker somewhere or belting back a bottle of
rotgut in a Cibola speakeasy.
From 'Mr. Vertigo.' (excerpt) (Paul Auster/Danilo Kis)
To be sure, the God of Lewis Nordan's Arrow Catcher County, Mississippi, wakes each morning with an enormous hangover, takes a shot of
rotgut whiskey for the cure and chases it down with an ice-cold Co-Cola.
Wolf Whistle
These books are welcome relief from a recent wave of revisionist
rotgut. The Drug Enforcement Administration's website proclaims that "Prohibition did work" (the DEA's emphasis), while ignoring the ban's effect on violent crime.
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Three days on the road seems a little early to start hitting the
rotgut liquor, but this foursome--Matt Wood on drums, Bobby Froese and Sunny Dhak on guitar, and Mike Payette on bass--left more than their homes in East Vancouver, Canada, when they embarked on their United States tour.
Pride Tiger
"For so long, tequila was crap, junk,
rotgut liquor.
Tequila's sun is rising: high-quality expressions fire the category
At base is cachaca, which can be anything from
rotgut to well-aged cane alcohol.
Sa1vador, coincidence, Candomble
All the techniques that go into the creation of good wine, beer and fine liquors (without which I'd be swilling the
rotgut poteen of my ancestors instead of the champagne I plan to drink in celebration of this New Year).
IF YOU COULD TAKE IT WITH YOU
The men from the record companies (invariably white northerners) set up their primitive machines (with the recording going straight on to needle-cut wax discs), uncorked bottles of
rotgut liquor and let it be known that they would listen to alomers from the black community.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO... SID LANGLEY
So we decided to get together through a new common project, Randlords and
Rotgut, and launch a nonracial ensemble.
Description of a struggle: South African theatre since 1970
After all, the whole lime/salt ritual was originally meant to mask the taste of
rotgut tequila.
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A joint on the weekend is the moral equivalent of a twenty-four-hour-a-day crack habit; wine with meals is next door to a daily quart of
rotgut. The stigmatizing of addicts, casual users, alcoholics, social drinkers and smokers makes punitive measures against them palatable.
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