Word: vino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well-publicized exception to dignified behavior, an invasion of all-male drinking territory, washed out completely. When four female journalists plunked down a five-pound note and demanded drinks at the bar of El Vino, a Fleet Street bistro, they were rebuffed. Righto, said one veteran equal-rights advocate, female novelist Storm Jameson, who fired off a letter to the London Times calling the quartet "damnably undignified and ill bred...
...eyes are so swollen. I had too much vino last night," complained Playwright Tennessee Williams. With a new novel, Moise and the World of Reason, just off the presses and a play, The Red Devil Battery Sign, opening on Broadway in August, Williams had an excuse for his revels. Last week he got together with the cast at the first rehearsal. Written two years ago while Williams was in Tangier, Battery Sign casts Anthony Quinn as a Mexican street musician, Katy Jurado as his wife and Claire Bloom as his downtown diversion. "I have never had a part before that...
...closed, anti-French demonstrations broke out in public squares, and local unions called for a general strike of the area's 20,000 workers. From Marseille to Perpignan near the Spanish border, French growers, meanwhile, set up roadblocks of burning tires to halt the influx of hated Italian vino by truck. Italians threatened to retaliate by stopping yearly imports of 2.8 million gal. of French champagne, plus cereals and meat...
...wines with the intention of selling them. Cruse claims that all the wine was confiscated by inspectors, and the chances are that none of it ever went on sale. Nonetheless, a number of Bordeaux merchants are worried about adverse publicity. After all, there are fresh memories of the notorious Vino Ferrari scandal of 1968, when Italian inspectors discovered that millions of quarts of red wine had been made from banana paste, tar acid, seaweed and other strange ingredients. It took the Italians five years to recover from that public relations disaster, and the Bordeaux wine industry is anxious. According...
...streets, on the heels of all those brave (and crazy) enough to risk their necks for the honor of being able to boast of "running the bulls" at Pamplona. After the day's fights the cafes are jammed as raised wineskins squirt forth their hurtling jet of cheap vino. The bands in the central square launch into native tunes that set the pace for the whirling dance of tottering celebrants, strangers momentarily united in their stupored carefreeness. Jake joins in with the native Spaniards, and, aided by the wine and the contagious exhilaration of those around him, almost forgets...