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Sony has not forced Japanese customs on American workers. Though the company provides lemon-colored smocks for assembly-line workers, most prefer to wear jeans and running shoes. The firm does not demand that anyone put on the uniforms. A brief attempt to establish a general exercise period for San Diego workers, similar to the kind Sony's Japanese employees perform, was dropped when managers saw it was not wanted...
Stassinopoulos is also good at interviewing sources and collecting anecdotes. When glaucoma was diagnosed and eyedrops required every two hours, Maria bought a tiny Louis XV timepiece that tinkled an alarm every two hours. Yet she loved nothing better than combing Woolworth's for such "bargains" as a lemon squeezer or potato peeler. A friend remembered a lunch at Claridges during which Maria proudly produced her latest finds. The Callas jealousy was legendary. The sight of her beloved Visconti, who was homosexual, merely talking with Leonard Bernstein sent her into a rage. Yet she did not always take herself...
...players out of their tax shelters. Sydney's Hordern Pavillion, normally a venue for pop concerts and agricultural shows, was transformed into a tennis stadium for the first two matches. Seats ranging from $36 to $3,600 (for courtside boxes) were laid out behind a row of dainty lemon dahlias. Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium was transformed even further for the final match. Kooyong is Australia's Wimbledon, the most hallowed tennis ground under the Southern Cross. But Kooyong's center court is grass, and Borg refused .to play on that fast surface. So Promoter Paul Dainty...
...time, not by the vulgar handful. How else to appreciate the richness of the coffee mocha, the tang of the pińa colada, the bouquet of the strawberry daiquiri? Aficionados are encouraged to eat a few select Bellys two at a time, however. Popping a coconut and a lemon simultaneously produces a taste resembling lemon meringue...
...Casanova, the cervical cap is no lemon...