Word: sweets
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...Count. The founding father of the California wine industry was a wandering Hungarian named Agostin Haraszthy, who appeared in San Diego one day in 1849. California wine was then largely made from the sweet, heavy purple grape brought from Spain by the Franciscan monks. "The Count,'' as Haraszthy was called, did not like it. He persuaded the legislature that the state's wine needed improvement, and in 1861, he took off for Europe, returned with 200,000 cuttings of Europe's finest vines-a favor that California later returned...
Gallo argues that the best way to boost wine consumption in the U.S. is to start the beginner off on the pints of 49? and 69? sweet wines for which he is famous. "Then," he explains, "after a couple of years, they'll be drinking a drier wine." Meanwhile, Gallo's judgment of the public taste results in the sale of millions of gallons of his artificially flavored Ripple, and Thunderbird-both spiked with...
Reading about all these fantastic intricacies is rather fascinating, and makes the literature of a couple of cartridges available at the moment both have easily understood discussions in their promotional material of some of these incredibly complicated problems that beset the cartridge maker. GRADO'S literature (describing their particularly sweet sounding new Laboratory cartridge--$49.50) is very interesting, as is AUDIO DYNAMICS' (explaining the starting ADC-1--also $49.50--which is the first cartridge to successfully track under 1 gram and still give exceptional sound...
...ancestors. Beginning with a 2 p.m. wedding breakfast-filet mignon and champagne for 300 at Detroit's Latin Quarter-the festivities continued with a 6 p.m. reception at which 750 guests danced to the music of a polka band and gorged on such delicacies as kielbasa (sausage) and sweet-and-sour sauerkraut. Toward midnight, as per Polish custom. Barbara Hoffa finally removed her veil and departed on her honeymoon, leaving Jimmy with only...
...woman's picture that sets out to celebrate the glories of interracial marriage but merely manages to prove that it can be as dull as the other kind. Cut and dried from Gwen Terasaki's bestselling autobiography, Bridge tells the story of a sweet young thing from back-country Tennessee (Carroll Baker) who in the middle '30s meets and marries a handsome young first secretary (James Shigeta) in the Japanese embassy in Washington. When the groom takes the bride back home to meet the folks, she makes all the predictable mistakes: wears her shoes in the house...