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Playlet No. 2, the most hilarious of the four, is one of those flirtations with sin and the fear of its consequences which has given Simon a particular hold on the fantasies of his prevailingly middleclass, middle-aged audiences. Mar vin (Jack Weston) has come West to celebrate the bar mitzvah of his nephew and been given the surprise present of a blonde hooker (Leslie Easterbrook). After a night of amnesiac pleasure, Mar vin wakes to find this houri, a vodka overachiever, comatose...
Americans abroad have been boasting for years about California wines, only to be greeted in most cases by polite disbelief-or worse. Among the few fervent and respected admirers of le vin de Californie in France is a transplanted Englishman, Steven Spurrier, 34, who owns the Cave de la Madeleine wine shop, one of the best in Paris, and the Academic du Vin, a wine school whose six-week courses are attended by the French Restaurant Association's chefs and sommeliers. Last week in Paris, at a formal wine tasting organized by Spurrier, the unthinkable happened: California defeated...
...stunned even the most worldly executives?but more because of the size and clumsiness of the bribery, the prominence of the receivers and the potential damage to friendly governments than because of the fact of the payoffs. On a less monumental scale, these managers assert, dash, baksheesh, pots de vin, la mordida?in a word, bribery?is an ancient and accepted practice, necessary in many countries to get any business done...
Before settling its main dispute, the Community was able to adopt two measures symbolic of European unity. Starting in 1978, all citizens of EEC nations will carry one passport, a dark lie de vin -dregs of wine-red. There will also be direct elections that year to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, which is now composed of delegates appointed by each government. Though agreeing reluctantly to the timing of the new passport, the British, together with the Danes, warned that they might not be ready for direct elections by 1978. On that relatively small point, the others were not about...
...played summers in New York," Wolff said yesterday, "and that's where I impressed the pro scouts. At Harvard I was second string behind Vin McCugan (one of the all-time great Crimson second-basemen) who was a year ahead...