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That range, in fact, has sent the manufacturers into an orgy of name giving. Charles Revson has come up with such goodies as Baby Biscuit and Raisins for his Etherea line. Estée Lauder has picked Coffee Brandy and Ginger Brandy for her nail polishes and Ripe Plum for her blushers. On the theory that a French phrase or two is equally intoxicating, Christian Dior has countered with Chataigne Doré eye shadow and Brume de Rose lipstick...
...Plum Branch...
...readers, boys especially, find the books a drag. What drama there is comes from the constant onslaughts of nature. Beginning in the Wisconsin forests. Laura, her sisters and their parents trek west by wagon into Kansas (Little House on the Prairie), then up to Minnesota (On the Banks of Plum Creek") and finally west again to South Dakota, beset along the way by grasshopper plagues, blizzards, rivers in spate and midsummer droughts that "cook the grains in the milk." Treated with a minimum of sentimentalizing (less and less in the later books, which are progressively directed toward slightly older readers...
Poverty of Success. Established wine makers led the planting rush. Paul Masson, a subsidiary of Seagram's, is increasing its grape lands around Monterey by 10,000 acres, an area two-thirds the size of Manhattan. Christian Bros. is uprooting plum orchards in order to plant vines. St. Helena's Louis M. Martini Co. stepped up production by one-fourth last year. "Like most of the family wineries, we are taking out just enough money to live on and plowing the rest back into the business," says Louis P. Martini, son of the founder. "We have never been...
...generalization. And for once children are portrayed without any of the usual cuteness: Tina's two girls are devoid of any charm. They are brats pure and simple. Benjamin is slimy and nervous, like a persnickety housewife himself: everything must be just so-the salad, the furniture, the damson plum preserves. Snodgrass' real housewife is suitably hassled and frustrated by the mad world around her, but she meets it head-on: this is no sob story of a woman lost in an overbearing situation not of her own making. Perhaps her madness consists only of her willingness to fight...