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Since moderation-minded customers often shy away from buying binge-size bottles of hard stuff, some distillers have repackaged their products as premixed cocktails. While they have tried this before with limited success, they now plan to offer more varieties in slicker containers. Chicago's Jim Beam, maker of the top-selling bourbon, has introduced single-serving cans in which its flagship brand is premixed with lemonade and other soft drinks. Winemakers have caught on to picnic-style packaging as well. Yago Sant'gria, the Spanish wine, now comes in six-packs of the same cardboard containers (straws included) that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blithe Spirits for the Sober Set | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

Complete with musical and dance performances, tableaux, laser projections, and fireworks, the hour-and-a half-long show should contain something to please everyone. 350th officials are estimating that a total of 700 people will appear on the stadium stage with about 25,000 watching in the stands...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: From the Olympics To Harvard | 8/8/1986 | See Source »

...first, says Walker, the group also haddifficulty working out how much Harvard historyand U.S. history the event should contain. "Wewere doing a whole kind of parallel between thehistory of our country and the history of Harvard.Then we decided we shouldn't try to link it thatmuch...

Author: By Shari Rudavsky, | Title: From the Olympics To Harvard | 8/8/1986 | See Source »

Reporters from all 53 news organizations had signed up for the tour, so they had to divide into two groups. The first section flew north in a battered Israelimade Arava. At El Zorro, a Bolivian official proudly pointed to sacks that appeared to contain white flour and knowingly murmured, "Cocaine." Actually, it was flour. Later the reporters piled into their plane -- then piled out when the fully loaded craft was unable to take off from the makeshift 300-foot runway. After being shuttled to a more suitable airstrip, they lifted off and returned to Trinidad. At that point, antsy members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia High Aims, Low Comedy | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...that last, simple level, the movie gives not just good weight but astounding value. The space outpost is not merely a more capacious haunted house than the first film's spaceship; it is the spookiest such structure in the history of movies, big enough to contain not only the large pool of potential victims but squads of monsters who keep coming at them from all directions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help! They're Back! | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

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