Word: biz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since the American still-wine business has gone flat in recent years, American wine makers have rushed into the fizz biz. Recent entries include Sebastiani and Iron Horse. The U.S. now has more than 100 brands of domestic sparkling wine, up from 56 in 1979. Schramsberg, the highly regarded Napa Valley brand that President Reagan served last spring at an official dinner in China, expects to sell some 28,000 cases of sparkling wine in 1984, 17% more than last year. Two of France's leading champagne producers, Moët-Hennessy and Piper-Heidsieck, have established wineries...
...chasuble, who keeps the customers satisfied with ingratiating patter-dinner and a show for the price of your soul. Off-pulpit, Father Farley is a bit of a sacramental wino but still relentlessly endearing, dodging attacks and responsibilities with an easy quip. Somewhere beneath the show-biz charm, though, compassion pulses. When an angry young seminarian (Zeljko Ivanek) antagonizes his rector (Charles Burning), Father Farley resolves to detoxify the lad's ardor, teach him a few punch lines, figure out where God fits into all this...
...together, Mondale unabashedly climbed right up on the stage, put on makeup and devoted his energies to modulating his voice, making eye contact with the camera and using the right body language. His principal purpose was not to explain himself but to confuse, anger and outscore his opponent. Show biz and boxing had claimed one more presidential hopeful...
...shout so much about my 18-in. skirts, I shall renounce paternity." In one sense he already has: all his skirts will be shipped to stores at knee length, leaving the exact specifications up to the purchaser. Gianfranco Ferre, who showed minis, thought the whole fuss was show biz. Said he: "I keep the same proportions on the runway as on the racks...
...with his natural reserve and sometimes phlegmatic manner, Mondale seems ill equipped to drive the inspirational message home Democratic Strategist Robert Strauss says that his man's empathy is not transmitted well on TV. "When you get past the show-biz part of it and talk about family values and American values," Strauss says, "Mondale doesn't have to take a back seat to anyone. But he doesn't handle the tear in the eye anywhere near as well. It's like everything else. It depends on how you do it." New York Governor Mario Cuomo...