Word: barbera
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When Anna La Barbera, a 33-year-old psychotherapist from White Plains, N.Y., bought a silver fox coat in 1984, she did so with joy and absolutely no hesitation. She would like to replace the aging fur, however, and she is in a quandary. "There's nothing like the warmth of fur," she says. But her physician husband is concerned about animal rights, and the arguments of anti- fur activists have moved her. "I've been struggling with the dilemma of buying fur," says La Barbera. "I like the look, but I feel real guilty." She is now shopping...
...Jersey and California have flourished, but many others have floundered. Freedomland U.S.A., a theme park in the Bronx, N.Y., devoted to American history and shaped like a map of the U.S., opened in 1960 and closed four years later at a loss of $20 million. Houston's Hanna-Barbera Land, a pizazzy play park for children, closed last September after two years. Half a dozen theme attractions, from Stars Hall of Fame to Circus World, have failed within the shadow of Walt Disney World...
...across Western Europe last week, consumers were looking at bottles of Italian wine with suspicion and alarm. And with good reason: eight Italians died and some 30 were hospitalized after drinking red Odore Barbera, a northern Italian wine that was contaminated by as much as 5.7% methyl alcohol, a deadly dose way above the legally permitted limit of .3%. The scandal widened when a woman from the Piedmont region of northern Italy was hospitalized after drinking a bottle of Fraris Dolcetto del Piedmonte that contained methyl alcohol, which is normally used in antifreeze...
...wine in supermarkets but also bring in bulk brands from Italy to fortify local products. At the ports of Sete and Marseilles, officials sequestered tankers carrying some 4.4 million gal. of southern Italian wine and dumped it after discovering contamination. West Germany tracked down 1,600 bottles of tainted Barbera in a warehouse near Karslruhe. Britain and Austria removed bottles of the wine from store shelves...
Italian police traced the poisoned Barbera to Giovanni Ciravegna, 57, and his son Daniele, 27, who run a wine-distribution outlet in Piedmont. They were arrested on multiple charges of manslaughter. Police suspect that the two men bought the adulterated wine from Antonio Fusco, a vintner from the southern region of Taranto. But Fusco insists that he is innocent, claiming "an act of sabotage has been carried...