Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regard to my old friend Robert Motherwell's designing a label for Rothschild wines [May 30], I think you might have found it interesting to mention my name along with Picasso, Chagall, et al., as the first American to create a label for Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1959, for one of the great vintages of this century. Motherwell himself will remember sharing my first signed bottle of 1959 Mouton when we dined with him and Helen Frankenthaler in 1962, right after I received my shipment of cases from France...
...more often, the author's obvious personal intelligence, coupled with that which he bestows on his characters, including the women, counteracts the nose in the air excesses. The theatrical, artistic and literary allusions (not to mention numerous Harvard Law School alumni) that Auchincloss generously strews throughout the novel usually liven, rather than overburden his dialogue...
Those . . . statements would mean the end of my political, literary, academic and public life, not to mention my life as a human being. How can one say that his poetry, his prose, his national identity, all have been a mistake? I identified with these aspects of my life more than I did with my own face, my height, my hands and feet. How could I say that my whole life was a mistake? One makes mistakes here and there, and when he does he may be willing to announce it to the whole world, but how can one make...
...Munchkins. At many roadside stands the food may indeed be cheap, but it is also inexpensive. Tests have shown that it would cost about two-thirds of the menu price to duplicate some fast-food meals at home. Factor in cooking labor and clean-up time, not to mention the absence of such fillips as special sauces or eleven secret herbs and spices, and the difference in price seems negligible...
...gathering of beer fanciers, debates can be ignited with the mere mention of such diversity, or even of container styles. There are those who prefer the drink in cans-particularly the easy-opening pop toppers. Consumed from the can, the beer retains its coldness longer, and the rush of bubbles on the palate is accompanied by a pleasant steely feel around the mouth. Others find opening a glass bottle a happy reminder of the 16th century dean of St. Paul's who discovered that beer can be kept for long periods in stoppered bottles. He abandoned a full...