Word: conti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Administration's Justice Department will not hound the Teamsters the way Republican Administrations did. Yet Carey's behavior, past and present, indicates that government supervision is still necessary. For example, the Teamsters leader doubts he "ever would have testified" on behalf of a reputed Lucchese family mobster named John Conti. But court records show that Carey spoke highly of Conti in a criminal case...
...text abounds in unusually shapely language for Miller, and in jokes. The production is not, alas, quite as polished. Tom Conti looks too young for Miller's antihero (although the script is inconsistent about his history) and seems too ingratiating. Perhaps the idea is to suggest that king-of-the-jungle fantasy persists in the most genial men; even so, Conti evokes intellectual posturing more than yearning. Gemma Jones is suitably antiseptic as his first wife, but Clare Higgins seems a bit stale for the younger second one, and Deirdre Strath just shouts as a grownup daughter...
Montrachet, a white wine produced by the French vintner Domaine de la Romanee- Conti, features a penetrating yet silky fragrance, a rich and robust fruit -- and a price tag that will knock your socks off. For $500 a bottle, oenophiles who purchase the world-famous Chardonnay expect to enjoy one of the world's great wines. Now it seems that some of them would have been better off with a bottle of Chateau Toledo. Attracted by the bouquet of easy profit, wine counterfeiters have produced bogus bottles of DRC Montrachet, which have turned up in California and as far away...
BURGUNDY by Robert M. Parker Jr. (Simon & Schuster; $39.95). A magisterial but awkwardly organized tasting guide to recent vintages from this French province by America's leading wine critic. Parker, as always, is pungently direct in designating picks and pans: a 1985 Romanee-Conti, scored a perfect 100, is "utterly mind-blowing," while a 1987 Echezeaux, rated 69, is "woody, stemmy, green and thin...