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...saga began in 1922, when Italian Immigrants Cesare and Rose Mondavi settled in Lodi, Calif., to start a grape-shipping business. In 1943, drawing on savings and bank loans, the Mondavis acquired the Charles Krug Winery, a dilapidated structure dating to 1861. To own it, the family formed a limited partnership, C. Mondavi & Sons, and later turned it into a corporation. Cesare, Rose, Robert and Peter each took 20%; Daughters Helen and Mary received 10% each. Cesare put Robert in charge and returned to grape shipping. When Peter got out of the Army Air Corps at the end of World...
Patricia W. Letcher Lodi, Calif...
...directed equally at self-willed, Nietzchian types and the principled English. It's about Napoleon right at the period of his life when his military ventures against Austria were winning him acclaim back home. The setting is a small Italian inn, and Bonaparte has just won the battle of Lodi. He's awaiting more information both from the field and from Paris and at the start, anyway, the play has potential for getting very serious. It is only when his courier walks on--an impudent, bumbling lieutenant--that the play develops into fun. The courier has been...
...naivete that works particularly well when he tells the strange lady to take off her dress so he can see if she really isn't that boy in disguise or when he casually draws a scenario for Napoleon showing how his horse had actually won the battle of Lodi...
...linear thought. Yes, lies in boxes stacked one by one along the ocean in a strip twenty miles long. Neon-emblemed inns and palaces, similar as a strip of concrete dolls notched with the original names of romance glowing from pastel tubes. Aku-Tiki, Capri, Ritz, Rivera, Bali Hai, Lodi. Still the ever more poignant essence remained, barely visible to this feeble romantic shell, his timbers charred by the explosion of the last decade and more recently ravaged by the imperative of honesty unleashed by the uncloaking of lies, the blind rat revealed for what he is. The rosy...