Word: mellows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time they met he declared, "I want to marry you," adding: "You're beautiful, like a May fly." Mary, a war correspondent for TIME, turned in her uniform and her press card to become Hemingway's "Pickle" or his "Kitten," as he referred to her in the mellow moments...
Only as the wines age can their myriad nuances and complexities be defined. But, as in the face and form of an infant beauty, all the lineaments of desirability are there. The grapes are thick-skinned, indicative of a high tannin content, which will help the red wines mellow with age and give them a pure, deep, brilliant hue. They are rich in sugar, assuring a high degree of natural alcohol (13% to 14% this year, v. 10% to 11% in normal seasons). The grapes also have a low acid content, promising full, soft wines for early consumption...
Assisted by Garth Hudson's swinging gospel organ and the mellow sax work of Tom Scott, Robertson injects a few woodsy rockabilly harmonies. Diamond polishes the whole thing off with the lush strings and clouds of sound that he loves in If You Know What I Mean - a showy, big-band production that clearly has the ring of yet more gold...
...Rosemary's Baby or Cul de Sac, laughter comes as much from astonishment, even outrage, as it does from humor. Polanski has a carbolic wit and discovers unplumbed depths of amusement in emotional deformity, physical abuse and psychic shock waves. If Chinatown found Polanski in a slightly more mellow mood -owing probably to the keyed-down romanticism of Robert Towne's screenplay-The Tenant shoots him right back to the center ring of his absurdist circus...
Unable to squeeze compelling copy from the desultory doings on the floor, reporters fanned out to interview delegates, their wives and children, hack-ies, bartenders, cloakroom attendants and even hostesses at the free convention-hall bar set up by the railroad lobby to mellow reporters. Gilbert Giles and his young colleagues at Children's Express were interviewed no fewer than 25 times by the convention's close. The New York Post devoted a column to California Governor Jerry Brown's remarks during a visit to a hamburger stand. Between 200 and 300 reporters asked for interviews with...