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...absurdity of the Yellow Pig adds a necessary note of humor into the otherwise serious nature of the program. The obvious silliness of Yellow Pig references is accessible to students who might not be sophisticated enough to appreciate the joke. "What's purple and commutes? Answer: An Abelian grape...

Author: By Laura A. Haight, | Title: Hamming It Up At Hampshire | 2/5/1982 | See Source »

...Europe, the only wine that legally may be called champagne is made from specified grape varieties grown mostly (42,000 acres) in the Marne and prepared according to a rigorous vinification process, in which the wine is fermented a second time in the bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Big Boom in Champagne | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...EMORMOUS FUZZY MOON hangs over a grape arbor, gilding the elegant curves of Grecian urns and arches, encircling men and women in evening dress with cinematic light. The leaves cast soft shadows over a tuxedoed pianist as he plays dinner music. A pair of "identical" twins wanders confusedly in the garden among those they love and those who love them. This is Illyria, setting of Twelfth Night and one of the prettiest never-never lands Shakespeare ever created, translated with intelligence and sensitivity to a strangely Hollywood-esque Loeb mainstage...

Author: By --amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Shakespeare In Wonderland | 11/20/1981 | See Source »

...class or go down to the kitchen and steal a box of Grape Nuts.(The Globe has some good movie reviews...

Author: By Robert M.mccord, | Title: A Harsh Mistress | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

...Brooks pushed the denim saga one more chapter, he might have come up with Thorstein Veblen jeans, preferably worn with a vicuna sweatshirt at a Rodeo Drive block party to benefit striking grape pickers. Such scenes belong to theatrical rather than routine life, though today the distinction is often blurred. Star-struck by the endless celebrity parade, a growing number of ordinary people stage self-dramatizations in public places. But are the pseudo John Travolta, roller-discoing among the pedestrians, and the orthodontist attending the U.S. Open dressed like Bjorn Borg intentionally ironic or deadly serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man in the Blue Denim Pants | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

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