Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James Beam distillery is the first liquor manufacturer to come to trial in a case involving fetal alcohol syndrome. Starting in November, all manufacturers of beer, wine and liquor must put labels on their containers warning that alcohol can cause birth defects and other health problems...
...grains of the pine tree. Indian experts prescribed a powder made from the bones of a peacock. Europeans in the Middle Ages preferred the testes or urine of all sorts of animals. One Frenchman favored the flesh of a crocodile ground into powder and mixed with sweet wine ("Works miracles," he promised). Some Europeans taught that eating an apple that had been soaked in the sweat of your lover's armpit was a sure means of seduction -- provided, of course, that you had prior access to your lover's armpit...
...they find hard to buy. Their lives are so busy that merely to give someone the time of day seems an act of charity. They order gourmet takeout because microwave dinners have become just too much trouble. Canary sales are up (low-maintenance pets); Beaujolais nouveau is booming (a wine one needn't wait for). "I gave up pressure for Lent," says a theater director in Manhattan. If only it were that easy...
...contemporary medium, TV. His Falstaffian girth, so impressive on stage and screen, seemed grotesque when stuffed into the small tube. The voice that shivered the old Philco during the ( Depression sounded hokey when it was used to seduce would-be sophisticates of the '70s. "Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time" joined the fleeting body of marketing folklore and spun off into dozens of jokes. (In one, the Welles impersonator intones the line, glances at his watch and says impatiently, "It's time...
...Johnson asks in the final episode, is wine alone among beverages considered an art? His answer: wine's amazing range of flavors, and its subtle changes while aging provide both nourishment for the body (in moderation, of course) and sustenance for the mind. Taste and experience, he urges. Many viewers will consider that sound advice...