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...soda. Now there are signs of a fundamental shift in the frozen foundations of the Republic: Americans are beginning to turn a cold shoulder to the three pillars of their forefathers' frigid faith-chocolate, strawberry and vanilla -and flocking to flagrantly concupiscent flavors like Passion Fruit, Kumquat, Papaya, Sparkling Burgundy and Brandy Alexander...
...names of the new favorites are in themselves enough to give any true wine lover the pip: Zapple and Boone's Farm (both apple wines), Bali Hai and Key Largo (orange, papaya and other fruit extracts), Spañada (grape), three different blends that are jointly named I Love You ("I" tastes like lemon-lime, "Love" is fruity and "You" has a cola flavor), Ripple (grape wine and tropical fruits) and Annie Greensprings (a grape rosé). The biggest sellers seem to be Boone's Farm, Bali Hai, Spañada and Ripple: exact figures are being withheld...
...Manhattan, a tiny, green velvet-walled shop called "i" is only five weeks old and already doing close to $3,000 business a week in items like Quince Seed Conditioner ($3), Papaya Night Cream ($9.50) and Wild Raisin Eye Shadow ($5). Co-Owners Sandy Oringer and Lois Muller started out with a mailorder offer-$2 for a jar of strawberry cleansing cream, grapefruit freshener and lemon moisturizer-that drew such response that they formulated an entire line of raw-juice and oil-based cosmetics and found a chemist to put it together...
...innocence. Blithely he goes on communing with his windup Victrola and 400 old recordings, and indulging such eccentricities as taking "a big shower" for 90 minutes each day, plus several "little showers after nature calls," and brushing his teeth six times a day (three times with toothpaste, three with papaya powder...
...holy papaya powder, who is fooling whom...