Word: sodas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dieu, the news was enough to send any self-respecting member of Parisian cafe society lunging for the bicarbonate of soda. Maxim's, the world-renowned, gastronomic masterpiece on the city's tony Rue Royale, was sold last week. The new proprietor: Fashion Designer Pierre Cardin. The $20 million tab was steep even for Cardin, 58, who lately seems more interested in haute finance than haute couture. He has had designs on the art nouveau establishment since 1978, when Maxim's present owners, Louis and Maggie Vaudable, agreed to lend the eatery's venerable name...
Around the time they discovered blue jeans, Europeans discovered another American invention, the open road, and gave the genre some local twists, such as the persistence of class conceits. Bertrand Blier (Going Places) and Wim Wenders (Kings of the Road) established the itinerary; now Diane Kurys, whose Peppermint Soda took a fresh, funny look at growing up Jewish in Paris, follows that road. Cocktail Molotov is set in May 1968, when French students and workers virtually shut down their country. Alas for Anne (Elise Caron), that is the moment she chooses to defy her bourgeois mother and take off with...
...Club Soda...
...Prestone onto a 15-foot pile in the stock room. I gained a new pride in my athletic ability. After working up a sweat filling the charcoal display, I would roll up my sleeves, loosen my tie, and whisper, "Now comes Miller time," as I sipped a Fanta grape soda...
...course, there were bad days at the Super-Saver, like when I sorted cases of Super-Saver soda, deciding which ones had too many maggots infesting them after nine years at the warehouse. Shoppers, outraged about inflation and economic inequity, often directed their anger at the handiest extension of the capitalist hierarchy--me. And I had to endure repeated performances of the 101 Strings version of "Across the Universe...