Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dine well at my table." Whereas the rest of the menu appears hopelessly verbose, its author was here perhaps all too brief, for, loosely translated, Catullus actually wrote: "You will dine well at my table if you are lucky-provided that you bring your own dinner, a beautiful girl, wine, wit and laughter...
Nolan's choice of colors -- muddy and wine-toned greens, blues, reds and yellows -- is effective. One fascinating monochrome is of a red hissing swan coiled in a white bankrupt-of-shade-or-blue-sky -- "Its heart was full of its blue lakes, and screamed: 'Water, when will you fall?'" The color illustrations are more specific and representational than the black and white -- and less effective. They are less of dream, less inventive, less demanding of imagination...
...AFRAID of witnessing the death of an eleven-inch trout by port wine...
False Messiah. As Galileo, Tony van Bridge is far from the ravenous sensualist of thought that Brecht had in mind, a man as avid for "a new idea as for an old wine." He nibbles fastidiously at a part that calls for gorging. This glutton of the mind is an intellectual mercenary. He will retract theories, integrity and self-respect so long as he is paid off with his life. Knowledge is an appetite for him and not an unstained banner of loyalty to scientific inquiry or a mandate to kill the belief in God. He is the typical Brechtian...
...smile on the face. Keep the collar worn loose at the throat. Move the bowel in the morning like the roar of a lion. Hum a lullaby while you pee. If you want to wear the toupee, which I do not suggest, always carry two. One for the white wine and one for the red. And when you drink the brandy you must of course be completely bald...