Word: cognacs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...softly lighted oil paintings, the white linen, the oversize European-style forks and knives, the private-stock California sparkling wine, the seven stately courses of dinner (a just and seemly number, the traveler comes muzzily to feel), the white and the red wines, the port, and, yes, please, the cognac. Conversation ramifies, and 2:30 a.m. ticks roguishly into view. The foresighted journeyer will have made an appointment to use his car's shower next morning, and the porter will knock at the proper time with a bathrobe. At breakfast, a driven soul may have a cellular phone brought...
...already sing patriotic songs about his Armenian homeland. "We already have had our share of grief this year," George said. "And now this new disaster promises us even more. But if you come back again this week, I will wait for you here. With a bottle of cognac. Life must go on in Armenia...
Irate Soviet citizens took to calling him the "Mineral Secretary" or the "Genjuice," but now they may want to tag Communist Party General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev with a more affectionate nickname -- say, "Comrade Cognac." Last week the Soviet Council of Ministers announced that grocery stores will once again be allowed to sell beer, wine and cognac -- but not vodka. The decree watered down Gorbachev's antialcohol policies of 1985, which produced long lines at state shops and a flood of black-market booze. Despite the softened stance on liquor sales, the Soviet leadership still hopes to cut alcohol consumption with...
...June, Racamier began to grumble publicly about competing corporate cultures within Moet Vuitton. He expressed fears aloud that the marketing of Cognac and champagne, some of which is sold through "mass distribution in supermarkets," would "contaminate" Vuitton's upper-crust image. To balance Chevalier's move toward Guinness, Racamier then made overtures to his own outside investor: Bernard Arnault, 39, whose group, Financiere Agache, controls the Christian Lacroix and Dior fashion houses. Following protracted negotiations, Agache and Guinness took a joint 24% stake in Moet Vuitton, with Agache holding the lion's share of the investment. Arnault, who is expected...
...swing music for dancing. Service is a bit rough around the edges, but the inventive Creole- Cajun dishes are generally successful. Among the best: sauteed sweetbreads with poached quail eggs, crayfish ravioli with scallops and tarragon sauce, and a basil-scented red snapper and crab meat with lemon-Cognac sauce that is this city's only good papillote creation...