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Coca-Colas mixed with cherry syrup for years were as much a part of the courtship ritual as convertibles, sock hops and holding hands. Yet the bottling company has never marketed its own version of the fountain concoction. Now it has made a better-late-than-never decision to put cherry Coke in bottles and cans, in its first flavored variation of the soft drink. When the company measured the popularity of several cola mixtures at the 1982 Knoxville World's Fair, cherry was more popular than lemon-, lime- and vanilla-flavored Cokes. Nonetheless, Coca-Cola will continue test-marketing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soft Drinks: I Gave My Love a Cherry Coke | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...some reason having to do with a previous renovation, a kitchen sink in the living room. The walk-up tenement has no working front bell. To enter, a visitor must call up from the sidewalk and wait for the poet to throw down a key rolled up in a sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mainstreaming Allen Ginsberg | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...most notable new addition is Lucky, the roly-poly sheep-dog puppy that has captured everybody's heart and one presidential sock, which she chews with relish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Tidings at Mid-Passage | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...Beethoven and Chuck Berry. Problem is, this Starman (Jeff Bridges) didn't R.S.V.P. Without so much as a by-your-leave, he has crash-landed in Wisconsin and now has three days to get to Arizona, where the mother ship will pick him up, like Junior after the sock hop, and take him home. His cross-country guide and reluctant guardian angel is Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen), a young widow, who at first registers no small surprise on discovering that Starman has assumed human form by cloning the body of her late and much loved husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Lover from Another Planet | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...Black Rock Brass. Think of the forest, and not of the cash. And in U-Hall 4 if you find Michael Spence. Say, "Relax a little, don't be so tense." For if all goes well and you coddle Prez. Bok. A University Chair you will find in your sock. Just think of ole' Roso, your precursor as dean. He gave us the Core, now he's not to be seen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Holiday Ode | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

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