Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wine & Mead. Fortas is something of an expert on French wine, distills his own mead on occasion, and whips up an excellent fondue. For "light reading" he is currently keeping on his reading table Robert Massie's Nicholas and Alexandra, Willie Morris' North Toward Home, and Giuseppe di Lampedusa's The Leopard...
...brown belt in judo. Sometimes, during a dinner at a friend's house, he will excuse himself and stand on his head in the corner for five minutes. Exuberantly boyish, he likes to slide down banisters or vault over platform railings to shake hands. He drinks only moderately-wine with meals, an occasional aperitif or whisky. But he despises smoking, which he looks upon, according to one friend, "as the most barbaric habit in the modern world...
Consider that rogue Italo Bombolini, the shrewd, Machiavellian mayor who outwits half the German high command and successfully spirits 1,320,000 bottles of vintage vermouths and robust red wines from the Nazis in Robert Crichton's best-selling 1966 novel, The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Indeed a difficult part for an actor, calling for a subtle combination of gentle foolishness and hardheaded Italian moxie. So naturally Producer Stanley Kramer picked an Irishman, born in Mexico, who hails from Hollywood: Anthony Quinn, 52, who has been studiously preparing for his role as the rascally wine merchant by tippling Cinzano...
...sidle up to a girl in the audience and begin speaking words of love in her ear. The girl may be induced to lie on the floor, where the actors rub against her and caress her. At such moments, playgoers may wonder whether Dionysus was the Greek god of wine or voyeurism...
...again the steely grace that seems to sustain all women born to or married to Kennedys. Children were a big part of Bobby's life, and played a part in the service. Four sons served as acolytes. Eight of their brothers, sisters and cousins bore the bread, the wine and the sacred vessels to the high altar...