Word: grapes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That, at least, is the essence of Buffalo Bob's new radio pitch. On the old Howdy Doody show, the lovable Bob, when not embroiled in the Byzantine struggles for pre-eminence in Doodyville, waged by Howdy and the nefarious, Mr. Bluster, used to sell Welch's grape juice to the kiddies. Now that his former audience is well of age, Bob's spiel has fermented; he is selling Riunite wine...
...picket several Boston area liquor stores to promote a boycott of wines made by nine growers in Napa Valley. Calif. The boycott is an attempt to force the growers to negotiate with the UFWOC. Since January, the growers have refused to recognize the union, which represents migrant grape-pickers...
...missionaries were also learning something about each other. The Spaniards were bewildered at first by the sobbing, arm-flailing exhortations imported from Dixie. For their part, the Texans were embarrassed by the thimble-size glasses of wine passed out during the Spanish Baptists' Holy Supper. Teetotalers, they take grape juice...
...raunchy and extremely paunchy victim of private eyestrain. Masters, whose favorite outfit is a pair of underpants, is the kind of detective who could lose a suspect in a phone booth. He gets out of breath cutting corners, hasn't enough hair to make a wig for a grape, and cowers before any weapon larger than an insult. Nevertheless, in accordance with the rules of soft-core pornography, he attempts to be Casanova in Jockey shorts. On the trail of an anonymous killer, Jake samples a smorgasbord of tarts, including a Lib wom-mannekin (Pamela Gruen) with the voice...
...loves Playboy ("One of the most progressive magazines in America"). He even recommends American TV (with all those channels "it is more like being turned loose in a library"). What's more, he sees them all as part of the revolution. Not only blacks, Jesus freaks and grape workers but near-Establishment liberals get abstracted into a single morality-play figure, labeled "The Dissenter." "There is more revolutionary spirit in the United States today, even on the Right," cries Revel, "than there is on the Left anywhere else...