Word: sip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course of an average week, Robert M. Parker Jr., 40, will sniff, sip and spit his way through hundreds of bottles of wine (reds in the morning, whites in the afternoon). The opinions recorded at his daily tastings are written up primarily for the 21,000 subscribers (at $30 a year) to his influential, fact-choked bi-monthly newsletter, The Wine Advocate. Finally, some of the judgments will mature into a book. November marked the publication of his third, The Wines of the Rhone Valley and Provence (Simon & Schuster; $22.95); both sections of France, Parker believes, offer good bargains...
...course, some people feel the remakes are superior to the originals. While one person might like "Wouldn't It Be Nice (If We Were Older)" better than "Wouldn't It Be Nice (To Sip A Sunkist," someone else might hate the Beach Boys and love orange soda...
...most successful new dolls have come, once again, from Coleco. Today's $125 Cabbage Patch Kids use the voices of real four-year-old girls. They gulp daintily as they sip from their special cups, giggle if they are tickled and complain when they are turned upside down. Eeriest of all, they can sense, by sending and receiving radio waves, when other talking Cabbage Patch Kids are near. When one doll passes within 25 ft. of another, it calls, "Hi, there! Hey, look who's here! It's my cousin!" The dolls may then break into a round...
...topless dancing in places where alcohol is sold, it did not bargain on the enterprise of Warren Colazzo. The owner of Fantasy World, one of the city's 14 topless bars, banned liquor rather than licentiousness. The outcome: a club full of 17-year-olds only too happy to sip Coke and near beer for a jiggle show...
...winced with each sip. I vowed never to drink black coffee again, even if Squeeze did sing a song about it. And despite my effort, he didn't ask me out again...