Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality & Private Life. Married, and the father of a daughter, he moved recently from his modest four-room apartment to the ornate Renaissance Premier's palace, Villa Madama. Pink-cheeked Premier Scelba likes good food and good wine, seldom smokes. Courteous, canasta-playing, flower-loving, he has a lawyer's respect for the letter and spirit of the law. When a high-placed Roman tried to get a government job for a friend, Scelba replied with icy politeness: "Dear Count, with full respect I must beg you to consider that I cannot take any account of your recommendation...
...child was obviously father to the madman. Hitler had a formidable capacity for divorcing himself from reality. As a youngster, he kept turning out sketches for grand new cities, planned to tear down half of Vienna and, incidentally, to convert its citizens from wine to a soft drink (a feat that the Fŭhrer, even at the height of his power, never accomplished). Sometimes, he meant to become a second Wagner, and once he started picking out an opera score on the piano ("I shall compose the music, and you will write it down," he told Kubizek...
...impressionist and primitive paintings (his favorite artists: Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Ilonka Karasz) and shelves of Dresden china, porcelain figurines and antique service plates. His personal chef "may possibly be the greatest chef in the whole world." Even when the Liebmans dine alone, service is formal: "We always have wine and finger bowls...
FLAMINGO FEATHER, by Laurens van der Post (341 pp.; Morrow; $3.95). A bloody envelope, a pink-and-white feather, a sailor's cap, a murdered Negro-what does it all add up to and how does it tie in with the South African firm of Lindel-baum & Co., wine and spirit importers? Thanks to the throb of distant tom-toms (which seem to be saying Mau Mau), the least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture...
...foil bouts, Captain Kris keggi, Tetragonal Meet foil champion, accounted for three out of five Eli wine. Jim Harrison took two out of three for the Crimson...