Word: wined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some men she is to rock what Beatrice was to Dante, with a voice like sweet molasses lifting them into a gossamer fantasy world of free-ee lu-huh-huv. According to Time, "She is the rural neophyte waiting in a subway, a free spirit drinking Greek wine in the moonlight, an organic Earth Mother dispensing fresh bread and herb tea, and the reticent feminist who by trial and error has created the male as well as the female ego." The covers on her albums are kind of like that too: flowers and nature scenes adorn them...
...Paris in 1961 on a French government scholarship, worked for traditional architectural firms and began to experiment with light as a means of changing an environment. He soon had his own room in a light show in the Paris Museum of Modern Art, where he could be found drinking wine and talking with visitors on nights when the museum was open late. By then Muller's ideas had begun taking on a new shape; he wanted different materials on which to project his light designs. So he began concentrating on inflatables, which are light, easy to work with, movable...
Reviewers are paid to take these terrible risks and the report here, offered a little shakily, is that Dandelion Wine is fine and new and rare. The novel is a giddy leap into nostalgia, and maybe that is why it works as well now as it ever...
DANDELION WINE...
Burn all high school yearbooks, tell loathsome lies to old roommates who telephone after 20 years, on pain of black despair avoid sentimental journeys to childhood beer gardens, and never, never reread Look Homeward, Angel. But here comes Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury's magical boyhood novel Dandelion Wine, republished in a new edition after 19 years. Is its magic powerful enough to make it young again, or is its neck corded and scrawny in the collar of that new dust jacket...