Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obedient to routine. Dukakis sleeps from midnight to 5:30. Only occasionally does he take a glass of white wine. For years union leaders at Labor Day picnics pressured him to stand holding a glass of beer in his hand, but the Governor declined. Aides do not smoke around him. Language is mostly cleaned up in deference to his sense of propriety. There is only small comic relief around Dukakis. He has little sense of irony, and his jokes are as forced in private as on the stump. Says a Dukakis Cabinet officer: "Don't get the idea we hang...
...never learned to free-ski, then were packed off to ski academies where obscure bad things were done to them. Ski resorts in the U.S., unlike those in Europe, fear lawsuits and kick you off the slopes if you ski fast. Maybe so -- yes, another round of mulled wine, please -- but where did the Mahre twins come from? The fact is that no one knows how once-in-a- generati on skiers or tennis players or milers are hatched. One of them makes a team dominant; two constitute a golden age. None at all makes this year dreary but normal...
Raise beer and wine taxes. The tax on wine is only 5% of what it is on hard liquor, while the tax on beer is 25%. Both could be raised to 50%. The tax on a 750-ml bottle of wine would go from 3 cents to 30 cents and on a six-pack of beer from 16 cents to 32 cents. $3 billion...
What the movie folks have noticed is a grim specter haunting all of yuppiedom. No matter how furiously they pedal their Exercycles, no matter how earnestly they chomp through their radicchio or how desperately they try to drown their anxieties in wine coolers, the yups cannot escape this terrible fact: procreation is the enemy of recreation. Not to mention carefree getting and spending. Recently we have seen one mini-hit (Baby Boom) and one maxi-hit (3 Men and a Baby) offering implausibly sentimental reassurances that there is life after surrogate parenthood. Now comes that prolific chronicler of youthful crises...
...addition, the requirements state that non-alcoholic alternatives must be provided whenever alcohol is served. Hard liquor should not be served after midnight, and beer and wine should not be served after...