Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cover was slugged "Games Singles Play," and it showed a beautiful young woman-suntanned, blond, and large of breasts and teeth-standing by the pool of a "swinging singles" apartment complex. She wore a skimpy purple bikini and held a glass of red wine in her hand. On the decking behind her lounged two bronzed young men, who seemed ready, when the picture taking was over, to join their woman friend in something hedonistic...
...book dwells on the somewhat odd dining and drinking habits in the White House. It reports that Nixon preferred a 1966 Chateau Margaux wine with dinner. On the yacht Sequoia, he instructed stewards to serve him this $30 wine, wrapped in a towel to obscure the label, while his guests got a $6 vintage. Ron Ziegler, Nixon's beleaguered press aide, had special drinking habits too: he would not take his White House cocktails unless the glass bore the presidential emblem. He even wanted his coffee served in a cream-colored Lenox china cup and saucer bearing the presidential...
...typical 500-calorie menu at Eugenie-les-Bains last season included: first day-mousseline of crayfish with watercress sauce, leg of milk-fed lamb cooked in wild hay, apple surprise, eggplant caviar, salmon with sorrel sauce, pear souffle. Second day-salad of artichokes and green beans in wine vinegar, sweetbreads with mushrooms, melon sherbet, poached egg with watercress, whiting with chopped vegetables, baked apple...
...president of ultra-chic Henri Bendel in Manhattan and one of retailing's shrewdest oracles: "Fashion is a much broader concept now. It's not just from the chin to the ankles. Fashion now means health, good looks, being in shape, good skin, beauty care. It means wine, furniture, needlecraft, growing things. Fashion today means the environment as well as clothes...
...move, prompted by George-Brown's fear that press freedom would be threatened by a Labor proposal requiring all journalists to join a union, was made only after considerable personal turmoil-and some alcoholic fortification. After a brief, halting speech, delivered while waving a glass of white wine, George-Brown backed away from the cameras, left the studio and fell on his face in the street...