Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saga of Pinocchio became immortalized in more than 80 languages; fans of the marionette, whose nose grew when he told a lie, claim that no other book except the Bible has been read in so many tongues. No one knows how many copies have been sold, but the total is in the tens of millions. There have been 256 editions in Italian alone, printed by 72 different publishers, and more than 100 English editions...
...another candidate must be added to that list: Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which resurfaced last week in San Francisco. The composer's second and last opera - his first was the bitingly satirical The Nose (1928), based on a story by Gogol - has had a checkered history. Completed in 1932, hailed as a major achievement at its premiere in 1934, condemned by Stalin in 1936 and sanitized 20 years later as Katerina Ismailova, the opera electrified its first audiences in both Russia and the West with its sexual frankness. One early critic, referring to the lascivious...
...Reagan said, "Can you turn your head a little? The light is hitting your nose badly." Haig obliged; the president doodled...
...Memory no longer seems able to file everything that the senses receive: "Sometimes the things Nikki saw on TV scared her, but a moment later she would forget about them." A new disease has begun to spread: Information Sickness, a kind of systems-overload characterized by "bleeding from the nose and ears, vomiting, deliriously disconnected speech, apparent disorientation, and the desire to touch everything." What with all the new vibes zinging through the air and the characters' craniums, a totally unprecedented emotion has also been reported. One student describes it: "It's like . . . I don't know...
...might enjoy this Spanish Rioja, Principe Rio '75. The 1980 Vouvray has good nose and body and a fair price, $4.75, and the Duvino '79 from Northern Italy is a modest red, well worth $2.95 . . . At last, wine tasting with a difference. These oenological odysseys are conducted not in a living room but in well-stocked liquor stores in Cambridge and Newton, Mass. Like many other wine and spirits stores catering to upper-income Bay Staters, they are taking advantage of a new Massachusetts law that permits retailers to let prospective customers sample their wines. The law, introduced...