Word: claret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such highly unpopular policies as Britain's retention of its own nuclear deterrent. "We should not," said Nye in one of his most famed declarations, "go naked into the conference chamber." Though he and Jennie Lee, his tough Scottish wife and fellow M.P., seldom lacked caviar or claret, Bevan railed eloquently against the Fm-all-right-Jack, never-had-it-so-good political climate in which Britain's working class celebrated its deliverance from deprivation and indignity. Throughout his career he was consistently portrayed by the press, in Foot's phrase, as "half boor, half buffoon...
...usually blends of wine made from several kinds of grapes, and are often sold in half-gallon or gallon jugs. Most generics are labeled with famous European geographical names, though the flavors can be quite different from the European. Some experts argue that the red generics (Burgundy, Chianti, claret) are slightly superior to the whites (Chablis, Rhine wine, sauterne...
Wendy Walker's expressive self-portrait, dramatic in its russet, green and purple facial tones, is a forceful and moving expression. David Fitcher's silkscreen of a contorted American flag lying amid a claret and orange landscape ably controls, through an appreciation of the organizing effect of color, both its political and aesthetic context...
...almost every detail. Gauguin's contact with the Noble Savage served mainly to give him the pox. He spoke barely a word of the Tahitians' language, understood nothing of their rituals and social structures, never ate yams or fish when he could afford tinned asparagus and claret, and was prone to copy his scenes of native life from tourist photographs purchased in the grubby colonial port of Papeete. The most advertised side of the legend is also false. Gauguin's art was neither freed nor even significantly changed by the South Seas. When he left France...