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...prohibitions against calling their product champagne, U.S. wine makers, mostly in California, have for many years been producing sparkling wines that compare well with some of the good French vintages; some are made by the French methode champenoise. Last October, for example, Sonoma County's venerable F. Korbel & Bros, introduced a dry, delicate, straw-colored Blanc de Blancs that drew critical raves at blind tastings. It costs around $16-no steal, but less than the price of a comparable imported bottle...
...indeed there are a couple of amazing, astounding acts. Philippe Petit, the French tightrope walker, does all that can be done on a tightrope but fall asleep; the Gaonas, who may be the best trapeze artists in the world (and who for many years appeared with the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus), force oohs and ahs out of the most jaded spectators; and the Back Street Flyers, six male acrobats from Harlem, show that the most plastic instrument on earth is the human body...
DUCK YOU HEAD-LOWLA BRIDGIDA! reads the sign on a Grand Canal ponte, just before one of Friz Freleng's manic critters slams into the lintel at full frontal force. The warning applies also to those attending this compilation of old Warner Bros, cartoon shorts. Beware of low gags, supersonic mayhem, polka-dot undershorts and the occasional smack in the puss-Sylvester J. Pussycat, to be precise. There is much unfettered mirth here from the rest of the Warner menagerie: from Bugs, the Cagney of lagomorphs, who plays Galahad and slickshooter to the splenetic Yosemite...
Elsewhere, Lurie detects a curious connection between the two most publicized American styles, preppie and punk. In their Brooks Bros, and L.L. Bean gear, preppies favor useless buckles on loafers, buttons on Oxford-cloth collars, straps on raincoats and safety pins on kilted skirts. These fastenings strike the author as powerful agents of emotional restraint. Punkers, on the other hand, leave zippers sagging, shirts unbuttoned and wear safety pins through their cheeks as though the flesh itself is literally exploding with rage. The styles may be disparate, Lurie concludes, but "both graphically convey the sense of a world...
DIED. Dorsey Richardson, 85, retired Wall Street investment banker who served as an economic adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; in Princeton, N.J. Richardson was a vice president at Lehman Bros, for 18 years. In 1963, President Kennedy appointed him to a task force aimed at promoting foreign investment in the U.S., a post Richardson was reappointed to by Johnson...