Word: vino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business subsided, middle-aged Tony saw he needed a woman, and sure enough, some pretty little Frisco waitress sends him a post-card professing love. On his way to the village railway station to meet her, Tony is drunk with triumph and a good deal of his own vino. His truck crashes, Tony is hurt, and henceforth is confined to a wheel-chair. He entreats his dear, departed but heaven-bound Mama (who apparently materializes for Tony somewhere in the vacant last four rows of the second balcony) for guidance. Tony then sings an ode about how "Young People Dance...
...basically exciting story (bandits v. ranchers) which, in this version, has no more suspense than a mystery story read backwards. Ava is the wife of a handsome, brave, wooden-faced Texas rancher (Howard Keel), who gets into a feud with a Mexican bandit (Anthony Quinn), a fellow who uses vino as a gargle. This bandit has a lieutenant, a handsome, brave, wooden-faced desperado (Robert Taylor). Gardner takes one look at Taylor and her earrings start aquivering...
...round assertion that philosophy, in the image of somebody called David Hume, really created empirical science even if no scientists had ever suspected this. Vag was stimulated, to say the least, as he directed his steps towards Cronin's, self-advertised as the Morey's of Harvard. "In vino veritas," he murmured, "is enough philosophy for me. And science can wait for Friday...