Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential hopefuls were jittering around Boston City Hall, making nice to the caucus delegates and observers who had laid out fifteen dollars to drink a little wine and listen to the candidates make their bids. Fred Harris, a Democrat from Oklahoma, stood in a corner greeting strangers like long-lost friends...
...About Sex was obviously less a parody of Allen than it was of sex. But there was something really unsophisticated, sort of junior-high-bathrooms-giggly about the idea of a humorous breast monster stalking the streets. While Allen is still chasing voluptuous young things--("Do you want some wine to put you in the mood?": "I've been in the mood since 1700")--his latest movie lacks that looking-for-the-dirty-part snickering. Rather, Love and Death finds him more a Renaissance man with a mature comic balance. Woody Allen is growing...
...theater a circling of the stage may stand for a long journey. He might have added that the centuries-old Noh drama uses no curtain and no change of lighting. The plays are acted with few or no props beyond a fan, which may represent a cup of wine or a deadly weapon. We know, too, that Wilder was deeply affected by seeing the art of Mei Lan-fang when the late Chinese star visited New York and moved many observers to proclaim him the greatest actor in the world. Mei was the supreme master of mime and symbolic gesture...
...some of TIME'S own snappin' women in New York: Gina Mallet, who wrote the story, Martha Duffy, who edited it, and Amanda MacIntosh, who researched it. At one point the three joined Ms. Hemingway in a Manhattan restaurant; they were halfway through lunch (cold lobster, white wine) before they could really understand her lickety-split, California-hip patois, but the interview turned out "okeydoke artichoke," as Margaux would say. Mallet also talked with Model Beverly Johnson and interviewed Millionette Nicky Lane in her Visconti-decadent drawing room on Manhattan's East Side...
...changed a lot over the past three years," said Rose last week, sounding more like mother than author. "Before, he had this image of the big sex symbol. But now he loves staying home in the evenings, popping corn, chewing celery sticks, eating a little cheese and sipping dry wine...