Word: manischewitz
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Auslander may indeed be, as one of his peers has declared, “the freshest voice in Jewish literature since Philip Roth arrived on the scene.” But like gefilte fish, and Manischewitz wine, Auslander’s wit might be a delicacy that never finds a following outside the ethnic niche market...
...what Tynan calls "his cobra-swift one-liners," brought a cooler temperature to Tonight. He seemed to verify Marshall McLuhan's dictum that TV is a cool medium, not for shouters but for soothers. (This was before Crossfire.) He was also a dry white wine in the sweet, gushy Manischewitz Concord Grape world of showbiz. Other comics might beg for love; Carson accepted the laughs, but, I'll bet, didn't need them to warm his needy heart. What need? Some would say, what heart? Remember that sang froid means cold blood...
...When I first came to work here, I couldn’t tell a Manischewitz from a Montepulciano,” she said. “I had to develop an almost encyclopedic knowledge of wine to be taken seriously in this business...
Monday night hundreds of religious, and nonreligious Jews and voyeuristic gentiles celebrated Passover by getting sloshed on Manischewitz and mocking their great-uncles. Home in New York City, Kenneth L. Cranstein '03 topped off his four glasses of wine and recitation of the four questions with four vodka shots at a hip downtown spot. He then propositioned the first four blonde girls by calling them "shiksas" and got alcohol thrown in his face four times. Sadly for Cranstein, the promised land remained far out of reach. Meanwhile, Eric G. Chung '06 was warmly welcomed by his blockmates to the seder...
...indictment handed down in Newark, the Government charged that the B. Manischewitz Co., the largest U.S. matzo baker, conspired with other firms to fix the price of products worth $25 million from 1981 to 1986. Jersey City- based Manischewitz is accused of exploiting the increased demand for matzo during the eight-day holiday by arranging "agreed-upon increases" for a variety of matzo items. Manischewitz denies the charges, saying its prices were "independently and fairly determined...