Word: coolers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirsty for the latest, coolest thing? Something fruity and fizzy, with only a playful amount of kick? The alcoholic-beverage industry has plenty of new suggestions: a picnic cooler full of concoctions freshly invented for the moderate but merry '80s. Here is an upscale-looking bottle of Seagram's Golden Spirits in a flavor called "mandarin vodka"; it tastes like a spritzy cocktail but contains little more alcohol than a beer. How about a Wineberry Sausalito Sling, with a flavor suggestive of ginger ale and bubble gum, or a Calvin Cooler in citrus flavor, with real fruit pulp floating...
Michael Crete and R. Stuart Bewley, two entrepreneurs in Lodi, Calif., helped get the wave rolling when they invented California Cooler in 1981, taking their recipe from traditional beach-party punches made of white wine, fruit juice and soda. By the time they sold their business last September to Louisville's Brown-Forman distillers for $146 million, more than 75 imitators had appeared on the scene. This year an estimated 70 million cases of wine coolers will be sold, up some 72% from 1985, making a total market of more than $1.2 billion...
Some of the more than 10,000 spectators who turned out yesterday sought relief from 90-degree heat in cooler areas of Quinsigamond--under tents and trees and even in the bathrooms...
Like color TV of that era, stereo is being pushed most aggressively by NBC (whose corporate parent, RCA, is a major manufacturer of stereo TV sets). The network offers 21 programs in stereo, including The Cosby Show, Amazing Stories and The Tonight Show. ABC and CBS have been notably cooler to the new technology. But two ABC series, The Insiders and Fortune Dane, were presented in stereo this season, as was the Grammy Awards on CBS in February. Several PBS series and much cable programming (including MTV) are also offered in stereo...
...immortal Ramirez who instructs Lambert on the finer points of how immortals should fight and generally conduct themselves in a hostile world. Connery is disappointing in this role. His usually imposing suave control is dampened by the Spanish effeteness of his character. Lambert in his Manhattan scenes is actually cooler than Connery...