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...Isole e Olena Chianti Classico DOCG (Val d’elsa...
...helping to quench demand for the real thing by duplicating la méthode champenoise. Two Spanish brands, Freixenet and Codorniu, have been produced according to the French technique since the 19th century. Freixenet's Cordon Negro, known for its distinctive black bottle, and Codorniu's Brut Classico both sell for about $6, yet critics have compared them favorably with French brands costing twice as much. Freixenet's shipments to the U.S. have grown from 540,000 bottles in 1979 to an estimated 9 million this year...
...feeling competition from Spain, which in the past several years has been producing excellent vintages in quantity, particularly red wines and brisk, clean sparkling wines that sell for a fraction of the price of French champagne. One of the first to attract American attention was Codorniu; the 1981 Brut Classico sells for $4.99. An outstanding example is Paul Cheneau Blanc de Blancs Brut, from Barcelona, which now costs only...
...gelato has swirled out from California. In the past year, several scoopfuls of competing companies have opened retail shops in Beverly Hills, Marina del Rey, Studio City and other communities. Some of the stores, notably the dozen or so high-tech outlets owned by the San Francisco-based Gelato Classico chain, cannot meet the demand. Some, like A1 Gelato in Elmwood Park outside Chicago and the art deco Gelati per Tutti on Hollywood's trendy Melrose Avenue, have become landmarks, packing in the pilgrims as thick as the product. In hundreds of supermarkets, brightly colored gelato containers nestle next...
...Alkmena's conquetry and supicious insight. She deserves credit for stepping into her role on one day's notice. Paul Fithian's fatuous Amphitryon, Henry Franck's priggish Trumpeter, Ellen Whitman's inappropriately uncosmopolitan Queen Leda contribute to the carnival of characters who romp through the play. Giraudoux's classico-modern play is typical of many twentieth century French plays that use classical myths to reveal unexpected truths about contemporary social or political conditions. Contemporary problems treated as versions of Greek myths not only retain the desirable characteristics of classical drama (strong simplicity and universal suggestiveness); but the imaginative power...