Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King, a former state representative from Boston, spent the weekend campaigning in different parts of the city, moving from a soccer match in a largely Hispanic area of Dorchester to a chic wine and cheese gathering at the Emmanuel Church on Newbury St., where he picked up the endorsements of two women's groups...
Industry watchers generally approved the move. Said Kidder, Peabody Analyst Roy Burry: "Combined with its already substantial wine interests, the buy will give Seagram's the critical mass of volume needed to market and distribute wines effectively." Paying off Coca-Cola will not be difficult. Seagram's plans to pay the $200 million purchase price in part with $120 million in annual dividends from its 50.3 million shares of Du Pont stock; the distiller acquired most of its 21% stake in Du Pont, now worth $2.6 billion, as a result of the 1981 battle to take over Conoco...
...competitors, who resented the company's aggressive marketing tactics. "Coke wasn't a gentleman in a gentleman's industry," said Emanuel Goldman, a partner of Montgomery Securities in San Francisco. It is expected that the tough advertising that Coca-Cola fostered will probably end. Meanwhile, wine prices are likely to start increasing, largely because of a predicted small 1983 harvest. Seagram's may be getting deeper into wine at the perfect moment...
...which opened last week in China's capital, one of several copies of the Parisian restaurant now owned by Designer Pierre Cardin, 61. Before East could meet West, 15 Chinese spent months learning the art and preparation of haute cuisine in Paris, and more than twelve tons of wine and other delectables were flown to the mainland. Said Cardin: "I am using capitalism to serve socialism." But the restaurant will have to rely heavily on foreigners living in Peking because citizens of the People's Republic are forbidden to go, except with special government permission...
...famous phrase about describing not the object itself but the effect it produces. To speak of "Motherwell black" or "Motherwell blue" is not to identify a particular hue-there are many blacks in his work and a near infinite range of blues, from creamy cerulean to wine-dark-but rather to evoke the way these colors work, as stable characters in a plot of sensation...