Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also owns such brands as Vichy and Contrexeville. Yet Perrier water has just about saturated the Western European market, and the rate of growth has been leveling off. Now, in an expansionary effort, the company has decided on a bold gamble: beginning in early summer, Perrier will try to crack the U.S. Thus it will take on the world's richest and roughest soft-drink market, which is dominated by such giants as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Seven-Up, not to mention scores of home-grown mineral-water bottlers...
Nibbling Away. Taking a few prisoners does not quite mean winning a war. Nonetheless, the Zaïrian strongman had good reason to feel buoyant last week. Bolstered by 1,500 crack Moroccan troops, le Guide's forces appeared at last to have won a round in a murky conflict that some Africans have dubbed "the Termite War." Neither side seemed able to do any more than nibble away at the other. But last week government troops not only halted the advance of the ragtag invasion army toward Kolwezi, the center of Zaïre's copper-mining...
Picture this: women sit in the executive suites and men in the typing pools. Women are aggressive and combative, and men are meek and passive. Women ogle waiters and crack bad jokes about sex while their male companions sit and fume. Imagine all that and you know most of what you need to know -or want to know-about All That Glitters, Norman Lear's new syndicated TV soap opera, premiering on 40 stations across the country this week...
...record with an unmarked speed: it takes time to get synchronized. At the beginning she will hem and haw, whistle and giggle, mumble and fumble, shrug her shoulders and contort her face. She will start a sentence the way she might climb a tree, worried that the branches will crack or that she will climb too high and not be able to get back down. Gradually, as she gains confidence, the mumbles turn into words, the words into full-and even funny -sentences. "Diane is always totally surprised when people find her amusing," says Woody Allen. "She is a natural...
...wife and two children in Paris, and an openly acknowledged mistress. Lady Annabel Birley, and two children in London, he lives a heady cross-Channel version of Captain's Paradise. Sir James Michael Goldsmith, 44, juggles all this and just about everything else with the aplomb of a crack gambler -which he also is. His latest gamble, to become an international press lord...