Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their underwear taboo but also to deny a request-by the Hanes Corp. to test some uninhibited ads for its Bali bras. Not content with just barring the living bra from U.S. TV, the board also decided to retain its "anti-quaffing" dictum and to consider banning beer and wine testimonials by celebrities admired by youngsters to boot...
...were other moods. Even before they were married Hemingway also called her a "goddamn, smirking, useless female war correspondent." In the course of 17 long years (and these 537 long pages) he pronounced her a "camp-follower," a "scavenger" and a "slut," smashed her typewriter to the floor, threw wine in her face before friends, and hit her ("a slight slap...
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...spared precious little water for France this past summer, but wine-making man is glorying in His neglect. From the rolling, red-earth slopes of Burgundy, whose minuscule vineyards might have been stitched into place by the Gobelin tapestry masters, to the gravelly, gray fields of Bordeaux, where sunny days are normally counted like pearls, the long, sultry Cézanne summer has wrought wonders among the grapes. For many wines, 1976 may prove to be the vintage of the century. At worst, the 1976 wines will be memorable and abundant in just about all the 655,125 acres...
Such rarely bandied words as "remarquable," "fantastique," and "extraordinaire" are being breathed by growers and wine masters, traditionally a cautious clan. "We have rarely seen such quality in the grape," attests Jean Delmas, estate manager of Cháteau Haut-Brion, the fabled premier grand cru classe Bordeaux cháteau. As the picking drew to a close last week, some growers sounded like Verlaine of the vineyard. Said Aubert Gaudin de Villaine, co-owner of Burgundy's great Romanée-Conti vineyard: "These grapes could have been made in a sculptor's studio-small, round, even...