Word: barbera
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...sleuth Scooby-Doo; in Los Angeles. Interned with his family in California during World War II, Takamoto first learned illustration from his fellow detainees. After the war, he apprenticed at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on films that included Cinderella and Peter Pan. In 1961 he joined Hanna-Barbera, where he designed characters for Scooby-Doo (whose name Takamoto took from a scat line in the Frank Sinatra song Strangers in the Night) as well as for TV cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons...
MacFarlane grew up in Kent, Conn., and attended the Rhode Island School of Design, where he created his short film “The Life of Larry.” Hanna-Barbera executives picked up the film and hired MacFarlane to write another one for them in Los Angeles...
...Paleontologists discovered a crocodile that walked on two legs. See, Hanna-Barbera was right." --STEPHEN COLBERT...
...Torinesi know how to make the aperitif hour a nightly, predinner tradition. As home to the annual Slow Food festival, a showcase for the movement that seeks to preserve Italy's traditional cuisine, Torino offers diners a rich choice of truffle sauces, sharp cheeses and full-bodied Barolo and Barbera wines - not to mention two native inventions, grissini, the ubiquitous breadstick, and the kid-favorite spread Nutella. Valentino Castellani, who shepherded through the city's successful bid during his eight-year stint as mayor, and is now head of Torino's Olympic Organizing Committee, wants those who associate la dolce...
...known for remarkable blends like its Hannibal label?a marriage of French and Italian fruit, in homage to the great general's march across the Alps. Winemaker Peter Finlayson has composed this wine with 43% Sangiovese, 23% Pinot Noir, 12% Nebbiolo, 11% Syrah, 6% Mourvedre and 5% Barbera grapes. The result is rich and complex, giving a concentrated, dark fruit nose, but a surprisingly gentle finish...