Word: wining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...musical landscape and found a cast of artists who are very much like themselves. Today's hot country stars, Garth Brooks foremost among them, are more likely to be college graduates with IRAs than dropouts with prison records. They put Mercedes and Volvos in their videos and refer to wine and cafes as much as beer and honky-tonks. They worry about keeping in shape and, in an era of middle-class constriction, about keeping ahead. The women sing about their heartbreaks, but they also rejoice in their sexual independence and ponder their opportunities. Both genders extol the virtues...
Marriage counseling is in, and so is staying sober. The barfly characters who cried in their beer in classic country songs have been displaced by yuppified drinkers who, in the words of a Reid song, are content to be sitting on their porch and "sippin' some wine/ from my coffee cup." That is, if they're drinking at all. In the video Travis Tritt made last year for The Whiskey Ain't Workin', the character he plays pointedly refuses to drown his sorrows in alcohol...
...many students, the Hasty Pudding Club conjures up images of wealthy prep school graduates cradling wine glasses and trading compliments about each others' parents...
...Wines are a safe bet in Paris. Try the new Beaujolais for cheap--yet superb--red. German and Spanish wines are also available and are quite enjoyable. French Bordeaux and Rhones are perfect for the traditional wine drinker, but the more adventurous may want to taste the Greek liquors Don't leave Paris without sampling the very French drinks-such as Pastis (anisade with alcohol...
...minicart sold mostly by word of mouth until he found the right check-out line at last year's International Gift Fair in New York. Maybe you can't take it to a minimart, but with a plastic liner, the chrome-plated version can be used as a wine cooler, a salad bowl or even a purse. Reidy says some Rolls-Royce dealers give the 24-carat gold-plated model to upscale Santas, who use it to deliver a set of car keys. Sales so far: 15,000. If you can afford it, check...