Word: malmsey
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...adopts the controversial technique of using actors to re-create real-life news events. Early in the play, Richard hires two thugs to murder his brother, the Duke of Clarence. In the scene as written, the murderers declare their intention to stab Clarence and then "throw him in the malmsey-butt in the next room," malmsey being a local beverage...
...service, especially on the issue of legalized abortion, though the guffaws of pregnancy jokes continue to echo from other pages. But other questions seem to trouble Playboy readers-and the editor who selects which letters to print-far more. How much does one tip a blackjack dealer? What is malmsey wine? How does a fellow get-and get rid of-the crabs? Why do Japanese girls think American men smell bad? (Answer: carnivorous Americans eat ten times as much meat as Japanese and their odors prove...
...Tewkesbury," and wooing her with cold precision and success even as she kneels by her husband's corpse. He plots his brother (Gielgud) into the king's disgrace, and has him murdered in the Tower-drowned, as a matter of gruesome legend, in a butt of malmsey wine. And while he waits for the aging king (Hardwicke) to die "and leave the world for me to bustle in," the "bottled spider" can teasingly tongue-tie the opposing faction ("Cannot a plain man live?") and make a lot of pious tut and pother ("I thank...
...also had a recipe: "To comfort ye brains, and for ye palsie, and for ye giddiness of the head. Take a handful of rose flowers, cloves, mace, nutmeg, all in a powder, quilt in a little bag and sprinkle with rose water, mixed with malmsey wine, and lay it in ye nod of ye neck...
...Hangover (MGM) has a theme reminiscent of the 18th Century legend about George, Duke of Clarence, who was reputedly drowned in a vat of malmsey wine. As modernized by Writer-Director-Producer Norman (Dear Ruth) Krasna, The Big Hangover tells how Van Johnson narrowly escaped a similar fate: when a French monastery was bombed during the war, he had to stand on tiptoe for hours in a cellar flooded with 100-year-old brandy. The ordeal left him so vulnerable to alcohol that even a glass of punch could set him talking happily to a lampshade...