Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, two LPs later (on the ATCO label) the Bee Gees' brand of straight-forward sentimentality is winning a surprising response from listeners who are either too young or too bored to investigate the rolling, stoned Beatles' milieu. The older boys smoke cigarettes, try a little wine now and then, nothing more. With a bit of luck, it might become a trend...
Businessmen they drink my wine Plowmen dig my earth...
Although gout is no longer caricatured as a comical disease caused by high living and swilling port wine, it is still regarded as an affliction almost exclusively of adult men, many of whom like to think that it is associated with above-average intellectual powers. Maybe so. But the latest medical research, presented last week in Baltimore at the annual meeting of the American Rheumatism Association, shows that at least some cases of gout are closely related to a devastating inherited disease. The malady occurs only in male children, and is marked by cerebral palsy, uncontrollable twitching of the hands...
...inherited enzyme defects are involved, and researchers are now trying to track these down. For the foreseeable future, gout victims will have to be satisfied with what relief they can get from drugs and watching their diet. But they may also solace themselves with an occasional glass of port wine or a highball...
...Wine of Life. Toward the play's end, this tepid dramatic tap water is briefly but movingly transformed into the precious wine of life. The old man, raging against the dying of light, is finally silenced by a stroke and wheeled into death, a skeletal zombie in a hospital chair. Alan Webb, 61, who played the 97-year-old poet in Williams' Night of the Iguana, might have been invented for this role. It is not only physical decrepitude that he conveys but also the humiliated fury of a proud, spirited and ruthless man cowed by the gradual...