Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Short but Sad. The meager quantity and poor quality of the 1968 crop are al ready being reflected in skyrocketing U.S. prices for older vintages. A bottle of 1966 Bonnes Mares Comte de Vogue (described as "noble," "powerful" and "long-lived") today costs twice as much as it did a year ago. Prices for 1966 quality wines have gone up 30% or 40% since last spring. A case of 1967 Chateau Lafite Rothschild, a famous Bordeaux, last December was priced at $76 (f.o.b. France). A case of the same wine is now selling for more than...
Despite excessive prices for such well-known labels, it is still possible to find a decent table wine at a decent price:about $3.50 a bottle. Still, bargain hunt ers must beware. The increasing short age of good imported wine stocks in the U.S. has encouraged some promoters to foist off cheap and often undrinkable French wines on unsuspecting American customers. One British wine merchant is shipping to the U.S. a vinegary rose named Bourgogne-Chainette, which he touts as "light, dry,refreshing" and "a great rarity." Only the last phrase is accurate. With a magnifying glass and a knowledge...
...monde. She was an earthly personification of Emily Dickinson's inebriate of air and debauchee of dew, stoned on life and art. In answer to the question, "What gods has mankind worshipped?" Dancer Isadora Duncan once replied: "Dionysus - yesterday. Christ - today. After tomorrow, Bacchus at last!" In short she was the quintessential bohemian, the ideal subject for a screen biography. The Loves of Isadora supplies the ideal object: Vanessa Redgrave, whose enactment of Duncan carries with it an exquisite sensitivity and a formidable intelligence...
...time he was 30, two novels (The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms) and the most brilliant short stories since James Joyce's Dubliners had made him, in his terminology, a champion. He should have lived happily ever after. But then, along came Ernest the Bad-the nonwriting Hemingway...
...doubt correct when he argues that it is too soon to offer any speculation about lurking critical questions. (For example: Will Hemingway endure mainly as a short-story writer or as a novelist?) Yet the absence of strong opinion and strong feeling, one way or another, finally seems an aggravating weakness of the book...