Cocktail, cocktail, cocktail, cocktail......
What the former residents see is architects and designers -- both local and foreign -- having cocktails at DR by candlelight and discussing Shanghai's transformation, almost overnight, from a rundown city to one teeming, once again, with new ideas.
Anybody who tried to discuss foreign issues at a cocktail or dinner, instead of celebrity gossip, Princess Di, Monica or Madonna, was treated as a social misfit.
Thanks largely to an influx of foreign bartenders from more cocktail-savvy nations — mainly Britain — and the return of Danish bartenders who polished their mixing skills abroad, the cobbled lanes and picturesque waterways of the Danish capital are echoing with the rattle of shakers and clatter of long stirring spoons like never before.
Just as defence policy is passing to bombardiers sitting thousands of miles from the action, so foreign policy is moving from cocktail parties and embassies to hackers sitting in their own attics.
So he began to try to make his own art with these written-upon envelopes, paper tableclothes, postcards, pages from mail-order catalogs, menus, foreign bills, claim-check stubs, cocktail napkins, hotel stationery, registration cards, art gallery invitations, Post-its, and photocopied pages of books.
Perhaps you'd like to take part in native dances or infiltrate a foreign government at a classy cocktail party.
Be it Rome, Gdansk, Nimes or Ljubljana, you're sure to spend the weekend slogging around WWII memorials, drinking cocktails and browsing foreign branches of H&M to see if they're different.
Business and politics too often overlap, often in a noxious cocktail with local and foreign spooks and crooks.
"Putin's foreign policy looks like a red-star cocktail to me," said Andrei V. Kozyrev, foreign minister when Boris N. Yeltsin was president.
Night after night, Kozak invited senior members of the secret police, army generals and foreign diplomats to meet over whisky and cocktails.
