Word: bibendum
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...tire firm bearing the family name; in a boating accident; near Sein island, France. An engineer and onetime assembly-line worker who rose through the ranks, he controversially cut thousands of jobs to improve competitiveness, reformed the company's secretive image and created the annual Challenge Bibendum, in which automakers worldwide compete to create the most eco-friendly cars...
...needs. But the real growth has come overseas, where inexpensive (less than $30) Australian wines are hailed for richness, approachability and reliability--characteristics that put them on a footing with good French wine. "Australia is now seen as a credible dinner-party wine," says Simon Farr, a director of Bibendum, one of London's top wine shops. "Ten years ago, it would have been French all the way--even if it tasted disgusting...
...tradition of hula hoops, the Twist, and Batman, he has become a raging American fad, and, although the Porter fad will probably wear out its welcome with the great American populace as quickly as its predecessors, we may as well drink the wine while we have it, Nunc est bibendum...
...three Horatian poems, the version of the Cleopatra ode (Nuncest bibendum, nunc pede libero/ pulsanda tellus ...) seems the best. The first stanza is ecstatic...
...good illustration was erected last year on the Stockholm waterfront. Massive, of polished rose granite, it shows little influence on Milles by his teacher Rodin. Two figures, a merman and his mermaid, intertwine in funny fat folds. She is doting; he, looking like the pneumatic Michelin Tire man ("Bibendum"), is highly amused...