Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boycott is a risky tactic. First, unlike the Farah pants or Gallo wine boycotts, Stevens makes no single product. Stevens goods are sold under a variety of brand labels--eight brand names of sheets, three of towels, and carpets, hosiery and linens under a mix of labels. Supporters of the boycott will have trouble making the consumer aware of what brands not to buy. In addition, only 34 per cent of Stevens's sales are in consumer products; the rest is in sales to the government and in unfinished textiles to other manufacturers. As a result, the boycott may focus...
Providence begins with a sequence of shots pilfered from Citizen Kane,with the camera leisurely examining the narrator's estate (the "Providence" of the title), and then cutting to a hand dropping a wine glass. Hands, cut off from the bodies they are supposed to serve, recur repeatedly in the film, symbols of creation and destruction, of free action and moral responsibility. The first two-thirds of Providenceis shot through a blue filter, evocative of the dark world of the unconscious, which is also the locale of Langham's latest novel. Here, characters wrestling with their inadequacies starkly confront...
Dolly's bus is equipped with a color TV, cassette player, reel-to-reel tape deck, CB radio and ice chest (soft drinks, beer and wine). It has two bathrooms and sleeps eleven. Dolly has her own room. There is a closet for her 20 costumes and four wigs. About the only way the bus looks like a bus is that it has the familiar lighted sign: WATCH STEPS...
...morning, dawdles over correspondence, takes a nap and then addresses his manuscript. He tires rapidly and is usually taken home by midafternoon. Burger has become solicitous of Douglas' welfare, attending small social events staged by Douglas and his fourth wife, Cathy, 33, and sending over gifts of vintage wine and tasty apricot and orange jam put up by Burger himself...
...management is taking particular care in choosing its wine list, and in seeing that its waiters are equipped to help customers select an appropriate wine for their meal, Koval said...