Word: gins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul Masson and Taylor wines, along with some 100 other spirits. To woo the yuppie sweet tooth, many distillers are marketing unusual-flavor drinks much lower than liquor in alcohol content. Bailey's Original Irish Cream Liqueur (whiskey, chocolate and cream) and Hublein's Long Island Iced Tea (vodka, gin, tequila, rum and triple sec) are successful examples...
...slightly, sales jumped from $6.2 billion in 1980 to $8.2 billion last year. "Wine has history, romance and a lot of glandular stuff," says Terrance Clancy, president of Napa Valley's Calloway Vineyards. "Eighty-three means something different than '82. I haven't heard of many people going to gin- tasting courses...
...nation entertains at home is also changing. The time when a host or hostess stocked up on whiskey for the winter, gin and tonic in summer, some bottles of white wine and a six-pack of beer year-round is gone. "I've had three cocktail parties recently," says Doris Yaffe, fashion and publicity < director for Saks Fifth Avenue in Boston. "I can't tell you how much liquor I was left with." The nation's caterers have seen hardliquor sales drop from more than half to less than one-quarter of their business. New York City Caterer Donald Bruce...
Mary Baldauf doubled to open things up, and Gin Barrest followed with a looping single to right. With runners on the corners and none out. Harvard looked like it might be about to repeat an end-of-game comeback...
...annual showcase for emerging American playwrights. In the nine years of the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville, many works have surfaced only to sink without trace; others have gone on to Broadway or Hollywood. Among them: Agnes of God, Extremities and The Octette Bridge Club. Two, The Gin Game and Crimes of the Heart, have won the Pulitzer Prize...