Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even some reasonably well-educated Catholics still think of brothers vaguely as "male nuns," California's little old wine makers, or as spoiled priests who didn't quite make the grade, visually because of not knowing enough Latin. Brothers are laymen who take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, live in community, but have no ecclesiastical functions; unlike priests, they do not say Mass or hear confessions...
...packaging firm. Defeated in the 1962 convention scramble, he has a pretty wife, eight attractive children,* and no reluctance to use them as political assets. Samuels stretched his announcement into a swinging two-day foray by chartered plane to Washington and six New York State cities, freely dispensing food, wine and happy-warrior predictions of victory. Inevitably, reporters christened his effort "the champagne campaign...
...enclave of Asian enterprise. In its sprawling, pagodalike marketplace, hunks of meat hang in bloody rows under swarms of flies; withered crones stir their black iron stewpots with k'uai-tzu (chopsticks) while spidery men stagger past under shoulder poles bending to the weight of oil and rice-wine buckets. Over all beats the cacophony of commerce: the steamy hiss of sidewalk cooking kiosks, the piping cry of the noodle vendors, the clash of cymbals advertising the approach of the blind Chinese masseurs who ply their trade in the side streets...
...Quartet No. 3 and Vin cent Persichetti's Quartet No. 2 crackled with clean precision. In Dvorák's Quar tet in F Major, Op. 96, their tempos, if sometimes inflexible, were brisk and lively, their tone as rich and heady as a draught of May wine. Neither muscular nor mushy, their approach was marked by a warmth and intuitive sensitivity that projected the sweep of the music in bold relief...
Even people who don't give a single thought to double-entendres flinch these days when a sultry woman flips onto their TV screens to ask coyly: "Had any lately?" What she wants to know is whether the viewer has had any Chateau Martin champagne, vermouth or wine. Chateau Martin's eight-week-old question is also being asked on radio, bus and subway posters, in magazine ads and on lapel buttons. Crestwood Advertising, Inc., which designed the campaign, credits it with a 48% increase in Chateau Martin sales...