Word: cola
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...
Obviously Godard is not taking the children of Marx and Pepsi Cola, as he calls them, too seriously. He minimizes individual importance by rudely dropping one of his characters and picking up another, by interrupting their pathetic moments with sight gags. But Godard does sometimes let his camera stay fascinated on one face. During these sequences, the camera doesn't move away from the face to explore or make analogies with the outside. It's as though the camera has a straight face. Catching every flicker of a character's eye, every turn of his head is comment enough...
...metal plate with an etching needle to obtain a nervous, dramatically blurred line. "Why do Westerners insist that Japanese artists remain 'quaint' and 'traditional' in order to fit their image of artistry in Japan?" he asks. "We dress just as Americans do; we drink Coca-Cola just as they do. An artist's work is composed of various sources. They include tradition, but they must also include the manner of life of man today...
...back up the new product. Founder of a successful Manhattan public relations firm still bearing his name, Relin took the reins of Blair Holdings Corp. ten years ago. While the company went through several name changes, Relin quietly built it into the world's largest independent Pepsi-Cola bottler and bought out two New York breweries, Liebmann (maker of Rheingold beer) and Jacob Ruppert. The company has used its acquisitions to increase sales from $26 million in 1962 to $187 million last year...