Word: claret
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...carries a conical parasol. Her conniving uncle Sir Today, a toper, is a monstrous barrel of rose wine come to life, with a wide sash just barely able to function as a hoop to keep the barrel from bursting. The foolish Sir Andrew is dothed in an orange and claret that are subtly incompatible...
Instead of absorbing his elected milieu, Gauguin largely rebuffed it. In an area where food could be plucked from trees and the sea, he exhausted funds on potatoes, canned asparagus and claret imported from France. Nearly all of the native-language titles affixed to his paintings betray his ignorance of the tongue. He learned little of the native myths, committing to canvas misconstructions so gross that Tahitians would have laughed if they had understood them. To the end of his days, he painted human figures on the guideline checkerboards, like graph paper, that steady the novice's uncertain hand...
...Marlon Brando, Prince Stanislas Radziwill and Lee, Roddy McDowall, Terry Southern, Francoise Sagan and Barbra Streisand (who opens in Funny Girl this week). Dame Margot Fonteyn is due. Warren Beatty, Caron's most recent co-star (in Promise Her Anything), is there. After an excellent dinner of chicken, claret and Chablis, the 28 guests dance till dawn...
...highly secret negotiations, France's Beaumont family, which has owned the vineyard since 1670, is wrapping up the final details of a deal that would give co-ownership of Chateau Latour and its annual output of precious claret to Britain's Harvey's of Bristol Ltd. And as a world-girdling distributor of wine and spirits, Harvey's has no intention of sharing its cup with the middlemen of Bordeaux...
...quiet voice on the BBC announced that Tom Curtal was dead. In his darkened study, over a supper of claret and dry biscuits, 79-year-old Graham Stanhope was at first shocked, then breathed in relief, "Thank God! Thank God!" With Curtal dead. Stanhope became Britain's unchallenged grand old man of letters...