Word: coca-cola
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...Orient, searching for stories. Though he apparently has his pick of every female in Paris, Montand eventually limits his love life to two: Girardot and a beautiful but blank American model (Candice Bergen). Considering the women's performances, the choice is roughly comparable to claret v. Coca-Cola; inexplicably, he chooses Coke...
...months to get out, and thinks it will be another eight months at least. Since he has lost his job, his girl sends him Wilkinson Sword razor blades from the U.S., which he sells illegally for a dollar apiece on the streets. He sips a soft-drink from a Coca-Cola bottle between boisterous gesticulations: "After a while," he says, with everyone else in the cafe looking and listening, "after a while, you get desperate...
Most interns agree on the value of close association with experienced administrators. Billy Mac Jones, special assistant to the president of tiny Angelo State College in Texas, reviews issues at the University of Colorado with his mentor, Student Affairs Vice President Glenn Barnett, then bets him a Coca-Cola on the outcome. After ten weeks of forecasting, Jones is only two Cokes in the hole. Janczewski thinks of himself as "a working member of the provost's department," but echoes a majority of his fellow interns when he admits: "I can make mistakes for which I am not responsible...
...spends the space discussing the fascinating food his soloist, Aloys Kontarsky, consumed on the days when the album was being recorded. On the groaning board: jugged deer with Spdtzle; marrow consomme; steak Tartare; saltimbocca romana ("He sent the rice back"); Movenpick ice-cream tart; Haldengut Pilsen beer; Cognac; Coca-Cola; Johannisberg wine, and one Bloody Mary. During one recording session, confides Stockhausen, "every movement that Kontarsky made caused his piano stool to creak on the wooden floor," a difficulty that caused a one-and-a-half-hour delay in the recording of Stockhausen's staccato, rather eerie Music...
...date on the meaning of foreign words they may hear in movies, or on the West German television that is watched by most East Germans. Academic freedom, for example, is defined as "the obsolete viewpoint that professors and students should enjoy independence from social demands in their university work." Coca-Cola gets far more Objektivist treatment. It is simply "a soft drink sold in all countries under U.S. influence...