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...There's an obvious explanation why Hong Kong is suddenly terroir cognito in the wine world. The global recession has gutted the portfolios of wealthy Western investors who are cutting back on their lavish purchases, including spending on vintage wine. Not so for Chinese investors. China's economy has suffered less and bounced back faster from the financial crisis than the economies of the U.S and U.K. At the Sotheby's auction, a six-Liter bottle of 1982 Chateau Petrus Imperial - described as having a sweet leather taste and a pruney finish - was gaveled off to a mainland Chinese bidder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vintage Wines Fetch Record Prices in Hong Kong | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

Vessenski says he and those journalists had to decide when and whether to expose Barbie, who was in cognito under the name Klaus Altman, to the international press...

Author: By D. RICHARD De silva, | Title: Faces From the Fourth Estate | 4/16/1991 | See Source »

...Women of Clay a chance to fly. The program whizzes through the ads to the best thing ever shown on MTV, John Fogerty's "Vanz Kant Danz" video, featuring a snivelling pig in a transformation sequence that is equalled only by the final and best short, "The Great Cognito," in which a nightclub impersonator's head actually becomes an entire ware movie. Shrapnel and everything...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: On Film | 2/20/1987 | See Source »

...small man arrived cognito in Rome recently. Nobody recognized him despite the distinctive white-on-white shirt and the pale grey glistening tie. But within a few days he had turned the deep eyes of Vittorio De Sica from cordovan brown to a fatigued Chinese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Crusader | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...ensure against royal scandal, my son-in-law, King Alexander of Serbia, promised not to visit France for a year after marrying my daughter, Princess Marie. His year is up. He is going to Paris in- cognito. It is reported that my wife, Queen Marie, will send me to observe his doings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Aug. 13, 1923 | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

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