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...makers of champagne and its fizz-alikes were to assemble for a party this week, it would be a frothy scene indeed. Their business is enjoying cork-popping growth at a time when liquor, beer and table wines have sluggish or declining revenues. Sparkling-wine sales have bubbled up to $1.7 billion this year, 34% more than in 1983. Exports of French champagne to the U.S. this year grew at the same effervescent pace and exceeded 1 million cases for the first time. With New Year's Eve approaching, France's Moët-Hennessy two weeks...
...crackled and popped when eaten. The candy was so effervescent that the company had to disprove rumors that children who swallowed the granules too fast would get a stomachful of carbonation. But the candy was nothing that youngsters could sink their teeth into, and the fad eventually lost its fizz...
...spirit may fizz away. It may leave little of substance. Or it could congeal into something meaner: smug, complacent, intolerant, jingoistic. Lipset suggests that if serious economic problems hit the country during the next couple of years, Americans will become bitterer than ever, and sink to new depths of national despair. Says he: "Americans will feel had, no matter what party is running the White House at the time." Or the country might become self-satisfied and flaccid. "Optimism does not mean that we should not be cognizant of the real problems that we face," says Orthodox Rabbi Stanley Wagner...
...reason: mousse works as easy as pie. With a pleasant fizz, the shaving-cream-like stuff is squirted from a can and combed through wet or towel-dried hair. After curling, blow-drying or hand-styling, moussers say, their hairdos are fuller, sleeker and easier to change than with sprays, setting gels or lotions. "Mousse helps your hair do what you want it to, with ease," notes Vidal Sassoon Art Director Steven Docherty. "You can get several styles, from a slicked-back Valentino look to a full, loose, curly look...
...pressure that was to fizz through the crazy columns was building, however. Listen to Bombeck, who wanted to give her kids the secure childhood she had missed: "I was overwhelmed. You get from your mother what things should be. I'm killing myself. We all did. Are you ready for this? I'm sitting there at midnight bending a coat hanger, putting nose tissue on it to make a Christmas wreath for the door. You know what it looks like? It looks like a coat hanger with tissue that is going to melt when it rains...