Word: wined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sign, however, may occur in any variety of porphyria-darkening of the urine, which frequently turns the color of port wine. The discoloration is caused by the presence of porphyrins, purple-red pigments contained in every cell of the human body and responsible for the red color of blood. In porphyria a metabolic defect results in an excess of porphyrins and their byproducts...
Hong Kong offers gold-painted, hand-carved wood panels from temples ($10), lacquered tray sets ($40), fine porcelain vases ($30 and up) and embroidered tablecloths with matching napkins ($12 to $60). For anyone tired of the same old cocktails every night, one interesting bargain is rice wine from the mainland at 800 a pint...
...admire the lofty 11th century basilica, where Christian knights knelt in prayer before setting out on the Fourth Crusade. Not far away, American tourists surveyed the vaulted arches whose proud occupants once presided over Medieval Europe's richest and most powerful city-state. More leisurely visitors sipped wine in the chiaroscuro atmosphere of the Florian Café, where modern expatriates from Ezra Pound to Peggy Guggenheim have gathered to talk. Almost everyone, some time during his visit, found time to marvel at the frescoes of Titian and Tintoretto, the sculpture of Rizzo and Verocchio, and the majestic bell towers...
...much. As soon as I got home, I unnerved myself from two months of Cambridge with a bottle of wine and ten hours' sleep. As soon as I regained consciousness I grabbed a copy of Portnoy and tried to forget about the vagaries of scholarship I'd been pursuing and bury myself pleasurably in the contemporary experience...