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Fort Knox. Americans, who are increasingly knowledgeable about wine, are among Terrail's favorite guests. La Tour rests above 150,000 bottles of wine, worth at his estimate at least $3 million. ("It's my Fort Knox," he says.) When a guest asks for a Coca-Cola, the waiter invariably replies, "What is that? How do you spell it?" There is one innovation that particularly pleases the well-to-do party giver: Terrail's notion of presenting only the host with a menu that lists prices. (A dinner for two, with a modest wine, will cost...
...high. There was what later looked like a laundry bag full of grass from the farm somewhere around. Three or four joints were always circling among fifteen people, so one passed every five seconds. There was potato salad, lasagna, big loaves of bread, a huge salad, cases of beer, coca-cola, and other things proper to a feast. More people stopped...
More than one American entrepreneur has befriended the Greek military regime, and industrialists reap large profits at the expense of Greek laborers. Multi-national corporations, including Exxon, Coca-Cola (both represented by Pappas), Dow Chemical and Alcoa, are exempt from a variety of taxes and duties. This is specified in the Greek constitution. Trade unions have been scrapped or stripped of power by the government, in order to maintain the low wages that attract foreign monopolists. Such economic tactics have driven about 250,000 workers to seek jobs in West Germany...
...plot, if it can be called that, is harmless enough. One Don Pepe Hernandez, a would-be impresario in the tiny Honduran coastal town of Trujillo, has rented a decrepit nightclub with money from his uncle, the owner of the local Coca-Cola bottling plant. His show, which he calls La Parada de Estrellas, or Parade of Stars, is advertised as featuring "international cabaret stars," who turn out to be four members of his family wearing various transparent disguises. The play consists of one full run-through of Hernandez's show...
...GRANDE DE Coca-Cola's attempts at humor draw on the ignorance of the Hondurans and the amateurish awkwardness of their performances. It is a series of malapropisms, mispronunciations, and slapstick--little of which is much above the level of a skit at an expensive summer camp. One of the biggest laughs comes when the emcee says "Mahsahss'-ah-shits" for Massachusetts. Unfortunately he repeats it another two times. The slapstick is on the same level. A blind blues singer walks into a wall. A drummer bangs his head on a cymbal while taking a bow. A favorite laugh-getter...