Word: dom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charolais sous la cendre garni renaissance, accompanied by a profound Chateau Gruaud-Larose en magnum 1952; an unassuming little hearts-of-lettuce salad with mimosa dressing. And for a windup, poires Mona Lisa-poached pears, swaddled in hot chocolate sauce, bundled into a pastry shell-trailed by a superb Dom Perignon 1955. The Ambassador toasted President Kennedy. President Kennedy toasted President De Gaulle. John Walker toasted the Mona Lisa...
...congressional investigation of the Struelens case. Last week his committee released a 568-page report which concluded that Struelens' treatment "constituted a glaring abuse of the visa power and a performance un worthy of the government of a great nation dedicated to the principles of free dom and justice...
...Connery were somewhat disturbing; they do not suggest Fleming's tasteful pagan so much as a used-up gigolo. Bond would never speak with a cigarette dangling from his urbane lips, for instance. But his lines are not contra-Bond: "It would be a shame to waste that Dom Perignon '55 by hitting me with it," says Doctor No. "I prefer '53," retorts Bond. And the producers had the sense to take Bond comically. "All good, and, I am glad to say, not quite clean fun," said a critic in the Sunday Times. The Evening Standard called...
...favorite haunt of London's gilded youth. Rosa smiled benignly on their amours, and could always provide a trusted young guardsman or undergraduate with a compliant partner. "All luxuries are overused," she said, "but sexual immorality is sometimes the least dangerous." She was also famed as hotel-dom's Robin Hood, from her habit of loading penurious guests' bills onto the richest resident, who for years was a meek, abstemious millionaire she called Froggy...
...Notable examples: Vince, Dom and Joe DiMaggio: Dizzy and Daffy Dean...