Word: brie
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Governor's top political aide described the contest as "between the Chablis-and-Brie crowd and Joe Six-Pack." As smooth and glib a speaker as King is stilted and lumbering. Dukakis came across as a sensible liberal, supporting stricter handgun control and subsidized day care for working mothers. He promised "a government and statehouse you can be proud of," a barely veiled reference to scandals that have tainted King's administration. King's secretary of transportation was imprisoned after being convicted of bribery, and several other key aides were forced to resign under clouds...
...shaker again." Senior Editor Timothy Foote, who edited the story and therefore "sits above the salt," is noted as a trencherman of more than fair enthusiasm. Since he worked on the cover story, his gastronomic ardor has cooled. Says he: "Now I suspect every innocent slice of Brie that comes...
...took more than a wheel of brie and a litre of Gallo to get elected in those days, and certainly more than a position paper. Forty or fifty supporters of a city council candidate would get together, attach campaign signs and railroad flares to their cars, and drive slowly through the city. The candidate would gather everyone from the neighborhood at Thompson's Grove for a picnic, a ball game, and a pledge of undying loyalty through election day. And there were thousands of slate cards for kids to hand voters as they entered the polls, palm-sized pieces...
...press junket was for the opening of the new wing of the Museum of Fine Arts and it was being held for members, sustaining members, contributing members, patrons, benefactors, papal nuncios, photographers, brie-eaters, and people from Weston. The Intern and the Foreign Car Driver had to come in early through a back door and were talking to some models from Filene's who were hired, to stand perfectly still, like mannequins, throughout the new wing to advertise the latest fashions. One woman was wearing the latest in sweatsuit technology, complete with gamma ray sunglasses. The rest were attired...
Dallas, which premiered in April 1978, established the pattern: a big, powerful family whose obsession with sex and money makes them miserable and the TV audience insatiable; guilt-edged lust that skulks through the generations, seeking spectacular revenge; feuds and affairs that seep over the interwoven plots like warm Brie over a Triscuit. These mechanisms had propelled daytime drama-the radio and TV soaps-for nearly half a century before the Dallas pioneers, Lorimar Productions, streamlined them for prime time. Dallas proved that mobile America would sit still each week for a continuing story of byzantine complexity. Since the current...