Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Potted. Alice, who got her start as a sous-chef in the kitchen of a girls' reformatory in Hawthorne, N.Y. ("I was a rotten kid"), dismisses international cuisine in four sentences. "Don't be intimidated by foreign cookery," she writes. "Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good." She is similarly cavalier about the tools of her trade. "Other books say, 'Do not, do not! Do not try to make a souffle unless...
Another discovery made accidentally while digging a canal for a village water supply, unearthed the sculptured pediment from a small mausoleum. The sculpture unlike anything found previously in Sardis, depicts a reclining man drinking wine. with his wife and two daughters sitting at his feet...
...secret of Santa Vittoria is hidden wine. The German army moves into Italy and a small contingent is sent to take away the wine. For the villagers, their wine is like the sacred blood of ancestors. Every day they work in the fields tending grapes. In a collective brainstorm the village manages to hide the wine before the Germans arrive. The rest of Stanley's Kramer film shows the conflict between the Germans' systematic force and the Italians' slippery deception. The Italians win. The Germans leave empty-handed...
...Zorba. As a result, one sees only the exuberant, happy-go-lucky, lighter side of Oumn's talents. Still, he does marvelous things with his face. Since the Germans expect him to lie, Bombolini must seem to lie about some things, without giving away the secret of the wine. In these scenes between the German commander and Bombolini, Quinn grins and grimaces, feigns shock and disbelief, moans, sighs and laughs. Anything to save the wine...
KRAMER deprives us of another part of the village by making the Italians seem like children. In Crichton's book, outside authority-the Fascists and the Germans-is defeated by the people. There are endless problems to be overcome in successfully hiding the wine, and each is solved by a different person. The village works together with a respect for the individual talents its people. In Kramer's film, this disappears. The few difficulties portrayed are solved either by Bombolini or the returned Fascist, two men in positions of authority. By ignoring the contributions that the villagers make, Kramer destroys...