Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the ordination, Means' friends gathered in celebration around a motel bar. "It was a fantastic event," said Richard Pelley, a neighbor who provided homemade wine for the service. "She's worked like hell to get here under some of the worst conditions." Remarked the new priest's husband Delton, "Being a truck driver I've been associated with women drivers before, so it's not really so new." Then he added: "I'm tickled pink...
...everybody, eats dinner, then says goodnight. By 9:30 he was upstairs working." Nor will liquor be served in the Carter White House. "I've been doing a lot of reading about the White House," she says, a shade defensively. "It was a tradition to serve only wine until recently." She notes that she served only wine in the Governor's mansion, "and it saved me money-I didn't have to have bartenders...
...Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter, it's ridiculous." Ketcham also feared that he was on the verge of turning Dennis' all-American comic-strip household into chez Mitchell. Says he: "I may be leaving in time, just before I inadvertently put a bottle of wine on the Mitchell table and have Dennis' father come home for lunch on a bicycle with a stick of bread under...
...scarce, although George soon encounters recreation in the person of one Hilly Burns (Jill Clayburgh). She introduces herself in the dining car by saying, "I'm a secretary. I give great phone." This strikes George as the height of erotic sophistication. He orders a bottle of wine to demonstrate, "I give great French." Hilly smiles knowingly. These two soul mates settle down to giggling over their bubbly and bunking down together. As George prepares to enjoy himself, he happens to glance out the window and, instead of moonlight, sees a corpse, falling from the top of the train...
Coles's article is an obvious example of this old-wine syndrome. In his ten-page essay entitled "Work and Self-Respect," he attempts to define the term "grown-up" by the working man's or woman's standards. He arrives at the legitimate conclusion that it means "responsible, hard-working, dedicated and, not least, self-sacrificing without demonstration of self-pity." To prove his thesis Cole relies on a few random interviews conducted "out there," as he describes the field. But, at the risk of throwing doubt on his opening assertion that he is in the tradition of George...