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...more popular than ever. The Pallisers, the 22-part PBS television series based on his political novels, has received almost universal praise from the critics, and has won a devoted, sometimes even fanatical, audience. In Manhattan, liquor store dealers have been startled by a sudden demand for a liqueur called orange Curaçao. The reason can now be told: it was the favorite drink of Trollope's crusty old Duke of Omnium. Oxford University Press, which publishes the six Palliser volumes, quickly cleaned out its stock after the TV program began in late January; it ordered a second...
...Cuba in March, Havana news boys hawking the stodgy daily Granma gleefully shouted, "The Yankees are coming!" At one store, the cashier closed her till when two Americans walked in and then escorted them to a storage area. She poured some glasses of piña, a local pineapple liqueur, and raised a toast: "Bienvenidos, felicidades...
...Vintage Car, sponsored by Borg-Warner, is equipped with cut-glass liqueur-decanter fog lamps, a crystal ball to predict traffic conditions ahead, a petunia-powered antipollution catalyst and a speedometer that registers from Nought, through Gently, to AWFUL. In fact, Emett notes, the machine "has a great safety factor: it doesn't move." His Far Tottering Railway was a hot ticket at the 1951 Festival of Britain at which it transported more than 2 million passengers; it is now the puffing pride of Toronto, installed at the Ontario Science Center. The Gentleman's Flying Machine is powered...
...Tour is not all that severe. To a sympathetic party, the management quite often proffers an after-dinner liqueur. And, says Terrail, no one blinks an eye when his guests swipe souvenirs. "You're in good company," says he. "Every year 14,000 ashtrays disappear...
...CUBIST DECADE: 16. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon-1907; 17. Bread and Compotier with Fruit on a Table-1908; 18. After the Ball-1908; 19. Still Life with Liqueur Bottle-1909; 20. Woman with Pears-1909; 21. Portrait of Ambroise Vollard-1909-10; 22. Le Mandoliniste-1911; 23. Ma Jolie-1911-12; 24. Le Torero, Ceret-1911; 25. Still Life with Chair Caning-1912; 26. Still Life-1912; 27. La Suze-1912-13; 28. Still Life with Fruit, Glass, Knife and Newspaper-1914; 29. Green Still Life-1914; 30. Harlequin-1915; 31. Three Musicians...