Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bars as such) are booked solid and have laid on massive spreads ($13.75 a plate at the Moskva restaurant) and lavish shows (seven different dance bands at the Ukraine). For home celebrators, 8,000 tons of fresh fruit and 1,000,000 bottles of Crimean champagne and wine have been shipped to the capital's markets, and a new state catering service called "Spring" advertised in Vechernaya Moskva that it was available for private parties, formal or informal...
Beckmann finally bought back his soul. Upon receiving an honorary doctorate from St. Louis' Washington University in 1950, he said: "Indulge in your subconscious, or intoxicate yourself with wine, for all I care, love the dance, love joy and melancholy, and even death. Art, with religion and the sciences, has always supported and liberated man on his path. Art resolves through Form the many paradoxes of life, and sometimes permits us to glimpse behind the dark curtain which hides those spaces unknown and where one day we shall be unified." Two days after Christmas 1950, while pursuing his imaginary...
They laugh when the shy little man in the TV commercial steps up to the bar and orders Byrrh (pronounced beer) on the rocks-but the laughter does not last long. Byrrh is a French aperitif wine that has up to now been unfamiliar to Americans, but it is getting a big introduction from a company that knows what Americans like to drink and how to sell it to them: Hartford's Heublein, Inc. Heublein (pronounced Hue-bline) invented the ready-made cocktail, led the trend to vodka drinking in the U.S., and was among the first to take...
Appeal to Youth. Founded as a family wholesale wine dealer in 1875, Heublein moved into distilling and distributing liquor, gradually acquired the importing and distribution rights for many well-known foreign products: Perrier Mineral Water, Harvey's sherries, Rose's Lime Juice, Irish Mist Liqueur, Guinness Stout. In its four plants it now makes vodka, gin, mixed cocktails, a line of liqueurs and several food products, including a breakfast cereal called Maypo. Through acquisitions, the success of its products and some high-powered promotion, the company has boosted its sales from $37 million a decade...
...wonder, the sheer animal delight of it have drawn thousands of readers to a novel called Zorba the Greek, a mad magnificat to man composed by the late Nikos Kazantzakis. This translation of the book into an English-language film might easily have changed the author's hearty wine of life into cinematic sugar water. Instead, Director Michael Cacoyannis (Electra) has served it up in a grand uproarious Bacchanalian bash...