Word: dines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are people who have achieved everything except their hearts' desires. They are caught in the joyless round of choosing the top hotel to stay at, the finest restaurant to dine in, the most delectable partner to sleep with. Boredom infects their days and nights, and drink is their anodyne...
...representative government by sitting in the colonial House of Burgesses. Visitors can gawk at its carefully reconstructed saddle shops and taverns, watch trained 20th century craftsmen and their apprentices produce guns, weave flax, and cast candles with the laborious, loving skill of their 18th century predecessors. They can dine at the King's Arms, where costumed waiters slightly self-consciously ask the guests if they want their napkins tied around their necks, 18th century style. Best of all, they can wander beside ox-drawn carts along quiet, auto-free streets, amble through dozens of fragrant, carefully tended gardens, gaze...
...weak to compose, but lingered on six more years to counsel such later hotbloods as the young Beethoven and Weber. For most of his life he was court composer to Prince Nicholas Esterházy, who obliged him to wear livery and dine at the servants' table, but who gave him every encouragement to tinker with accepted musical conventions and, when necessary, to kick them over. Haydn's musical life, in fact, stands as a direct contradiction to the old movie script that requires genius to feed on adversity...
...fingers over the stone friezes that depicted the ancient battles between gods and men. From Angkor, the Kennedy party was to go to the port city of Sihanoukville, where Jacqueline was to rename a street "Avenue President Kennedy," and then back to Thailand, where she was to dine with the King and Queen...
...Bella. The policeman has never explained how he met Miss Atwood, but a grandmotherly affection obviously developed in the heart of the reclusive old lady, so painfully shy that the only known photograph of her was taken when she was a child. Sometimes De Bella invited her to dine with his family; he often spent his lunch hour visiting her lonely hotel apartment...