Word: wined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wine makers, everything that sparkles is gold...
...Nancy Reagan have opened their home to 400 Secret Service staffers, who are apolitical by law, and to 500 members of Congress, some of whom became so temporarily for the occasion. Democratic Congressman Thomas Downey, recalling that party sustenance in Jimmy Carter's White House consisted of white wine and finger food, surveyed this year's full-service bar and buffet of roast beef and fettuccini approvingly. "One nice thing about Republicans," he allowed, "is that they are not afraid to spend money...
Saving the good wine for last, however, Serban offers as an appetizer to the evening's feast "A Gozzi Surprise," The Love of Three Oranges. A condensed adaptation of the Prokofiev-Gozzi opera of the same name, it is a frantic farce, of unparalleled foolishness, concerning a hypochondriacal prince who will die unless he laughs. In the course of the show, the prince is stranded in a desert with three oranges that turn into three beautiful, but thirsty, maidens. An audience must be snatched up into the realm of such nonsense, but the "Gozzi Surprise," despite the comical efforts...
Gigi reminds us theatregoers have yet to match the security of the wine connoiseur at a Paris cafe. This production of Gigi comes with the same winning label that made a delightful book for Colette, one of the first great musicals by the Lerner and Lowe team that brought Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), and Camelot (1960), and swept nine academy awards in 1958 for the film version. We even see Louis Jourdan, who first achieved popular fame as Gaston, return as Honore, the role immortalized by Maurice Chevalier...
...provide almost any financial service imaginable, from stock brokerage to letters of introduction for a foreign business deal. The moneyed customers of Manhattan's U.S. Trust, which caters to a select 5,000 depositors, have been treated to private lectures on such subjects as Persian carpets and fine wine...