Word: perrier
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...like a man?" Meanwhile, each month at the Garden, 20,000 souls who wouldn't be caught dead at a Jane Fonda Workout congregate to scream obscenities and pelt the wrestlers with hot dogs and ice cubes. For the few hours they spend together in a wrestling arena, the Perrier Set and the Boilermaker Brigade have something in common: synthetic blood lust...
Ralph: Right, dearest. So doubtless we shall soon see Margaret Thatcher flogging Dr Pepper, and Queen Elizabeth in her royal quarters having an argument with Prince Philip over Mountain Dew. Maybe we can get Sandra Day O'Connor to push Gatorade. And how about Mother Teresa for Perrier? She could talk to us about choices for the poor...
Something to drink? Gromyko took a glass of fruit juice, Nancy one of Perrier; the chitchat was of liters and pints, metrics vs. the old American way. But then Gromyko abruptly turned the small talk big. "Does your husband believe in peace or war?" he asked...
...consumers regarded France's pricey bubbly as an indulgence reserved for weddings, New Year's Eve parties and World Series locker rooms. But the current strength of the dollar has brought French brands within easier reach of the average American. Mumm's Cordon Rouge and Perrier-Jouët's Grand Brut, both priced at about $20 two years ago, now sell in the U.S. for as little...
...opposite, a deep apprehension that the jungles of vulgarity are too close, that they will creep up and reclaim the soul and drag it back down into its native squalor, back to the Velveeta and the doubleknits. So the breed dresses for dinner and crooks pinkies and drinks Perrier with lime and practices sneering at all the encroaching riffraff that are really its own terrors of inadequacy. Snobbery is a grasping after little dignities, little validations and reassurances. It is a way of swanking up the self, of giving it some swag and flounce and ormolu...