Word: plonking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long ago, the ditsy wits of the Monty Python shows could get a quick laugh by disparaging some plonk from Australia as "a wine for laying down and leaving there." No longer. The wines from Down Under are moving steadily up in quality, and they are enjoying a new popularity in the U.S. Riding a trend for Aussie chic that has made household names of Qantas, Pat Cash and "Crocodile" Dundee, U.S. sales of Australian wines topped 1 million gallons last year, more than triple the volume of 1986. "People who have experimented with Australian wines have been very happy...
...accelerating waltz of death takes place against a gilded backdrop of a country villa, with the late summer afternoon plink and plonk of tennis matches offstage, and a snowbound resort hotel in the Dolomites. Mark Lamos, in his auspicious debut season as artistic director of the Hartford Stage Company, has boldly chosen to set his stage so sparely that some of the claustrophobic density of the drama is diluted. But he has distanced his characters from each other in their most intimate encounters so that what playgoers feel most acutely is the frosty chill around their dead souls...