Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throw their garbage into the street. Last week, with the building nearing completion, vinophilic Frenchmen were talking about the most serious flaw of all. A Marseille daily, La France, pointed out with horror that, by building his Radiant City on stilts, the architect had left no room for wine cellars. Said one indignant Marseillais: "Who wants to live in a temperance asylum? Give me a one-story bungalow with four walls, windows, a roofand a wine cellar...
...monastic Paris quarters, Le Corbusier replied calmly: "There will be a central grocery where the tenants can buy their wine every day." The Swiss-born architect had no sympathy for people who wanted to keep a few old bottles of their own in a cool, dark place. "Let them go and live elsewhere...
...Gilbreth Jr. for their Treize à la douzaine (Cheaper by the Dozen). The prize, which is supposed to be 500 gold écus, was paid off this year in 500 ten-franc aluminum pieces, all in a spirit of high good humor. The Prix Rabelais (50 liters of Brouilly wine) went to H. P. Gassier, a cartoonist...
...curiously spotty film with an impressive performance by its fiery star and glimpses of the director at his raw, powerful best. It tells of a demented peasant woman who mistakes a strange passerby for a vision of St. Joseph. He sits silently while she babbles and drinks his wine until she falls into a stupor. When she finds herself pregnant, she is fanatically certain that she has been chosen for a holy birth. Scorned and humiliated by the villagers, thrown out of her cliff-dwelling by a grotesque beggar, she climbs into the mountains, where she bears her child alone...
...best of all World War II novels of infantry fighting, was New Zealander Guthrie Wilson's first novel, Brave Company, a book that most writers of war novels could read with profit. Briton Alexander Baron showed that he, too, understood his infantrymen in The Wine of Etna, a novel about British troops in Sicily...