Word: bacchus
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...play, which is full of life's nothingness, despair, and death, manufactures miserable versions of characters from mythology. It could succeed; its Bacchus as a barkeep who can't get drunk and a psychotic slattern who might be an uglified and twisted Aphrodite are curious figures, and a raid by a masked group led by Death always has dramatic potential...
...last night's masked horrors looked and behaved like a bunch of kids out for trick-and-treat. Patricia Smith's slattern recalled a hoarse and unhappy spinster. And like the other actors, Bacchus (Michael Cline) relied on pronouncing lines in a pseudo-theatrical voice...
...world's great treasure houses, ended by reat-tnbuting no fewer than 30 paintings and some 70 drawings to Jordaens. Among them is a princely portrait that had hung for 108 years in Scotland's Rossie Priory labeled "General Velasquez by Rubens." Another, portraying the infant Bacchus, Jaffé pulled from a musty storeroom in Warsaw's National Museum...
...reduce the uncertainties of wine drinking in Italy and protect the worried industry, the government has recently begun to enforce strict wine legislation. It set up a special food-and-wine-standards police squad that quickly became known as "the Bacchus police." Last week, in the biggest Italian trial in decades, 174 men and women were charged with adulterating or faking wine. Heading the list of accused in the crammed courthouse of Ascoli Piceno on the Adriatic coast was Bruno Ferrari, 65, boss of the Casa Vinicola Ferrari, largest of seven wine companies involved in the case...
Household Name. After weeks of watching the eight Ferrari wine plants and shadowing the company's delivery trucks all over the country, the Bacchus police arrested Ferrari and his associates and seized 10,000 tons of adulterated wine. For more than ten years Vino Ferrari had been a household name in Italy. A popular Ferrari commercial-which was taken off the air when Ferrari was arrested-showed a tired businessman reviving his sagging spirits after a hard day by knocking back a glass of Ferrari wine. "I'm a new man," he shouts to his wife...