Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...muggy afternoon last week, four men sat at an oilcloth-covered table shaded by grapevines behind the Joe and Mary Italian-American Restaurant in Brooklyn. Over pasta and red wine they were ostensibly celebrating the departure next day of the restaurant's owner, Giuseppe Turano, 48, on a vacation trip to Sicily. Suddenly a blue Mercury sedan drew up outside, and five ski-masked men rushed into the restaurant. Six feet from the table, they opened fire with shotguns and semi-automatic rifles. In a litter of rolls, half-eaten salad and .45-cal. shells sprawled the body...
...that "there is a sucker born every minute." To encourage five-figure bids, Wilson provided shuttle buses, disposable toothbrushes in rest rooms, free phones, simultaneous translation for a group of 25 Japanese, and $300,000 worth of frankly fabulous food catered by Los Angeles Restaurateur Robert J. Morris. The wine flowed like water, and so did the Perrier. "I think it's a goddam hoot," grinned a Texan, as a forklift truck rolled past bearing 1,200 live Maine lobsters...
...hoopla is also taking a playful turn. Clear Lake, Texas, Houston's space suburb, is staging a series of parades, dances, wine tastings and baby contests (with the toddlers dressed in moon suits). At Cape Canaveral, moon buffs hope to form a 26-mile human chain along the beaches. The Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas will be the site of a show-biz bash called "America's Salute to the Astronauts"; any of them who turn up have been promised a flight to San Clemente, Calif., for a poolside lunch with former President Richard Nixon. At Chicago...
...less inclined to turn pathology into poetry. But he is certainly interested in how others did it. His collection of essays, subtitled Medical Analyses of Literary Men's Afflictions, balances biographical and clinical evidence with psychological speculation and common sense. "We do not test the consecrated wine for hemoglobin content, nor would Careme's recipe for a madeleine give us insight into the workings of Proust's imagination " he writes. "But literature is often a transformation of experience, and it can be illuminating to find out just what the expeirence was and how the writer used...
...century London and suffered, by Dr Ober's documented count, 19 acute attacks of urethritis. Just how the clap affected his writing is not readily apparent. More comprehensible are the roots of Boswell's reckless social life, specifically his Scots Calvinist origin with its severe strictures against wine and wenching. For Boswell, the embodiment of this authority was his father, the eighth Lord Auchinleck, a straitlaced, unaffectionate parent and a distinguished jurist who wore his courtroom robes around the house. The case history is not unfamiliar: son seeks the attention of the remote, puritanical father by challenging...