Caipirinha (continued)

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CAIPIRINHA (continued)

"Tall and tan and young and lovely
The girl from Ipanema goes walking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes--ah!"
--THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA (song lyrics)

     I'll nail Brazil's national drink.  Give me some time.

17 October 1953, NEW YORKER, pg. 82, col. 2:  What he gets are black cigars,
boxes of matches to light them with, black chickens with their throats slit,
and, most favored of all, bottles of _cachaca_, a violent Brazilian drink
made from sugar cane.

7 March 1965, NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, pg. 30, col. 1:  The sand was strewn
with white flowers, mostly lilies, and quantities of "white" alcohol called
_cachaca_, were drunk.

18 October 1975, SATURDAY REVIEW, pg. 24, col. 3:  It was just such a tableau
that is said to have inspired "The Girl From Ipanema," a song that has now
become a standard.  "The girl" has matured to a matron, but in her time she
captivated the songwriters gathered in a small, off-beach cafe then called
Velloso.  Now the music and lyrics are enshrined on the wall, and the cafe is
called "A Garota de Ipanema," a place to resurrect memories, invoke musical
history, sip a _caipirinha_--clear sugar cane brandy, mashed sugar, and
limes--nibble a _sandulche_ of _peru_ (that's the turkey of Brazil) and
behold this year's crop of beauties promenading in The String, hopeful of
inspiring some artist to literary or musical creation.

     Ah!

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JERUSALEM SYNDROME (continued)

     The Dow Jones database has 420 hits for "Jerusalem syndrome."  There
were 135 hits up to 12-31-97, 125 hits in 1998, and there have been 160 hits
so far in 1999.
      The first citation, as the _Barnhart's_ points out (adding "?"), is
from 1987; a play with the title of "Jerusalem Syndrome" opened that year.
Yair Bar-El of Jerusalem's Kfar Shaul Hospital appears to have discovered the
malady.  A 10-1-1994 article in the Peoria Journal states that the syndrome
was "first recognized 14 years ago."