Word: pallid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...importer of Italian wines, Villa Banfi decided to put down roots in the vineyards of Tuscany. But that turned out to be no easy matter. The company had to convince some suspicious Italians that it was a serious winemaker. Local residents feared that the Americans would produce a pallid, commercial product that would damage the area's reputation for fine wine. When Villa Banfi first sought to buy land near Montalcino (pop. 5,500) in 1978, the area's growers and agricultural unions strongly objected. They remained unconvinced even after the company promised to produce only high-quality...
...Spindly, pallid, shrewd, vulnerable and yet rather grand, he appears at his sweetly domineering best in My Favorite Year (1954, by the way). The role is that of an Errol Flynn-like movie star named Alan Swann whose swash has buckled to the point where the IRS is forcing him to choose between deportation and a back-tax-paying appearance on a TV comedy program. This show bears a more than coincidental resemblance to Sid Caesar's old Your Show of Shows. The perils it presents to a man whose joints have been vulcanized by excesses of meaningful booze...
...Orson Welles has not made a lot of films, a dozen, I believe, but I've seen all of them." The declaration last week came not from some pallid revival moviehouse veteran, but from French President François Mitterrand, 65. Speaking at the Elysée Palace in Paris, Movie Fan Mitterrand then intoned: "Mr. Welles, we grant you the honor of Commander of the French Legion of Honor." The director of such film classics as The Magnificent Ambersons and Citizen Kane was less awed by his own craft. "The director is the most overrated artist...
...smiling. Through most of the nearly one-hour court session, he was smiling. He left the courtroom smiling. But when Judge George Pratt ordered him to spend three years behind bars (out of a maximum of 15) and pay a $50,000 fine, Williams showed a deeper emotion: his pallid face momentarily flushed...
...counterculture" or anything else--gets top billing; it was this war and the response to it that gave birth to the phoenix and virtually every other underground newspaper in the country. And it is the absence of the war that has turned them into pallid imitations of what they once were, that has transformed underground into alternative. "I would choose to call the phoenix simply a metropolitan or urban weekly..." publisher Stephen Mindich writes in his tribute to the paper. That is the truth, and that is the problem...