Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successful fare, primarily because of overdone, often sweet garnishes -- oranges in an otherwise luscious lobster ! salad, a cloyingly sugary bed of sauteed onions overpowering the delicate Dover sole meuniere. Another problem at all meals in all rooms is the tearoom breads, delicious by themselves but poor as foils for wine, the satiny American smoked salmon and the elegant terrine of truffled duck liver. Other fine dinner appetizers were the silken lobster-filled ravioli with chanterelles and hazelnuts and a ragout of wild mushrooms. Among main courses, moist, roasted pheasant with a subtle gamy flavor was well set off with pungent...
Montand might as well have said that Ripple had been designated the official French wine, for the Palais audience immediately erupted in derisive whistles and howls. Catherine Deneuve, who presented the award, pleaded futilely for the mob to give the director a chance to defend his honor. But the catcalls delighted Pialat. "If you don't like me," he proclaimed, "I can tell you, I don't like you either." He smiled and raised a defiant fist. More boos, more hoots. Somebody spat at him. PALME D'OR SCANDALE A CANNES, screamed the next day's papers...
Investors who buy commodity-futures contracts bet on whether the price of such staples as silver and soybeans will rise or fall. Now they can earn truly heady rewards from wine futures...
...goal was to protest the new national-security legislation that, according to the opposition, will all but duplicate martial law prohibitions -- in short, old wine in a new bottle. In an effort to build a consensus inside as well as outside the KMT, Chiang has permitted extensive discussion of the proposed law in the Legislative Yuan, in which the KMT holds 287 of 321 seats. The hard-line KMT members oppose softening martial law until Peking renounces its intent to bring Taiwan into the fold of the People's Republic -- by force if necessary...
...have any effect on behavior? Probably not. Interviewed in a Washington singles bar, Therese Gallagher, 23, a student from New York City, said she would continue to down six drinks weekly. "I don't think about the bad things in life until something happens," she explained. If she drinks wine, though, she may not have to worry: the Harvard study found an increased risk of breast cancer only for beer and hard liquor...