Word: jugs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brings the food and comes back when the truckers are nearly done. She carries a water jug and coffeepot on her tray. The men are ragging her again, and her hands tremble. The tray falls with a crash. The jug breaks. Glass, water and coffee spread across the floor. She sits down in the booth, tears rolling down her cheeks...
...searches for its owner and snaps at anyone who tries to peer through what was once a window. The destruction seems haphazard. A completely undamaged kitchen with a green refrigerator opens into the hulk of a demolished bedroom. Fragments of lives are scattered everywhere, here a flowered water jug, there a statue of the Virgin Mary, her severed head resting a few steps away from her folded, praying hands...
While sales of higher-priced varietal wines, named after specific grapes like the Cabernet Sauvignon and Pinot Noir, remain strong, low-cost generic labels, the Burgundies and Chablis produced by such vintners as Inglenook and Almaden, have fallen off. The price of a gallon jug of domestic wine sold in food stores has been cut in half since 1981, to about $3. Meanwhile, foreign vintners have flooded the U.S. Helped by a strong dollar that has made their wines cheaper for American buyers, foreigners boosted their share of the American market this year to more than 25%, up from...
Prospects pop up all over town. At Mr. Ed's drive-in, where Yasenak fills up his coffee jug late in the morning and then sits down for a warm, sweet butterhorn pastry, one of the waitresses, Julie Lynn Ratliff, makes an appointment to talk later...
Among California wines, the noble varietals of Robert Mondavi have been discounted, from the superb Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve '78, down from more than $60, to $49.50 a magnum, to the pleasant Fume Blanc, at $6.50 (down from $8.50). The competition has also been fierce among domestic jug wines produced by such firms as Gallo, Almaden, Inglenook and Paul Masson, some of which have cut as much as $2 from the cost of their three-liter bottles. The serious wine collector can find remarkable bargains among prestigious Bordeaux and Burgundies, as well as vintages from lesser-known petits chateaux that...