Word: bordeaux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Richard Nixon, 68, spent the early part of his two weeks in Europe holed up with Friend Bebe Rebozo, 68, and Assistant Nick Ruwe at a Paris hotel. But there were side trips to Versailles and Rheims and a two-day stay in the Bordeaux wine country at the château of Friend Baron Elie Robert de Rothschild. Next: Lausanne, Switzerland, and then on to Vienna, Flensburg, West Germany, and Denmark with an entourage of 30 friends and aides...
...same but different: Since Dr. No, the producer's first James Bond movie, in 1962, he has remade his own picture eleven times. To evaluate For Your Eyes Only and the other Bond movies, it helps to think of them not as, say, different vintages of a fine Bordeaux but as successive models off the Pontiac assembly line. In one vehicle there may be an annoying ping in the engine of narrative; in another the dialogue may be as sleek as Genuine Corinthian Leather. But all meet the same standards of speed, styling and emotion control. If there...
Cante Philippe Bordeaux, France...
...strapless, black silk-taffeta evening gown that radiated a wolf-whistle glamour not associated with Britain's ruling ladies for generations. (But certainly in the tradition of England's first Princess of Wales, the fair wife of Edward, the Black Prince. Holding forth in English-ruled Bordeaux in the 1360s, the Princess scandalized a local lord with her "luxurious trimmings and low-cut bodices.") It was clear from the decolletage that the gown was not a couturier's illusion. Lady Di filled it to overflowing. Said one observer: "I thought she was going to take a deep...
...flutter of duets and trios and sprightly choral spectacles, the rejected Nemorino turns for help to the traveling doctor Dulcamara. This quintessential quack provides him with the magical "elixir of love" (A bottle of Bordeaux) which will transfix Adina's attentions. Adina and Belcore prepare for a gala wedding, and Nemorino sells himself into the army to buy the elixir, and his rich uncle dies, and the elixir works or maybe it doesn't, and brightly garbed townspeople dance and sing about wine and romance...