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...they pointed out, is about to wrap up a deal of its own to acquire Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Mid-America. That would extend CCLA's marketing turf from Hawaii and the West Coast eastward. Both companies, like about 500 other Coke bottlers, are independent of the monster Coca-Cola Co. of Atlanta, which supplies bottlers for a fee with Coke syrup and rights to the trademark. The bottlers do not have to confine themselves to Coke: CCLA, for example, also bottles Canada Dry and Dr Pepper soft drinks...
...mixed-up lady; she does not have to be a visual horror. As Idamante, Mezzo Maria Ewing sang with enough splendor to suggest that the gods had blessed her early and often. Unhappily, she had been garbed too boyishly for the youth capable of slaying a sea monster and making women swoon...
...amputee in a story by Gogol who places an ad for the return of his lost nose. What Roth succeeds in portraying, though, with all the delicacy and poignancy of the Russian dramatist, is that Kepesh is in fact a figure from a Chekhov novel. Not a warped, disfigured monster but a man whose constant pursuit of love reveals the tragic-comic dimensions of our own lives...
...U.S.S.R.'s monster-size rockets like the SS-18 will not be limited in numbers -as the U.S. had sought. They will be counted, as would any other ballistics missile, against the overall ceiling...
...brought to his senses in Tartuffe is Orgon (Stefan Gierasch), a bluff, well-to-do bourgeois who courts innocence by association. His mind's eye is so befogged that he persistently mistakes sanctimoniousness for sanctity, guile for goodness. His chosen saint in residence, Tartuffe (John Wood), is a monster of false piety, a dark prince of humbug and hypocrisy. More significantly, he is the stinking essence of the world's wisdom: that a crime is no crime unless one gets caught...