Word: wined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answer characteristic of the affable Pieroth, 55. A scion of West Germany's pre-eminent family of wine merchants, Pieroth is a model of can-do spirit. Despite the immensity of the task before him, he is confident that, once unshackled, the East Germans will build for themselves a vibrant new economy just as surely as their West German counterparts did after the devastation of World War II. "In the coming years, we can harness the idea of keeping up with the Joneses," he says. "The East Germans want to show the West Germans that they can do just...
...national stereotypes, one of the most enduring is of the Frenchman squinting through the smoke of the Gauloise affixed to the corner of his mouth, holding a glass of dark red wine in his hand. Last week the government declared war on that image. The Ministry of Health warned that 300 French men and women every day die prematurely from excessive smoking and drinking...
Thus far French imports have dominated Japan's small but growing market for foreign wine. Fujisankei's offerings, moderately priced at between $10 and $17 a bottle, have been blended "with the Japanese palate in mind," says a company spokesman, meaning that they are slightly sweet and fruity. Who knows, maybe mint juleps will be next. But Fujisankei can think about that tomorrow...
...devil his full due. He warned in his sermon that "diabolically instigated violence is on the rise" and asserted that heavy-metal rock music can "help trap people, especially teenagers," into dabbling in disgraceful Satanist practices. In particular, the Cardinal denounced rocker Ozzy Osbourne's tune Suicide Solution ("Wine is fine but whiskey's quicker/ Suicide is slow with liquor . . . Suicide is the only way out./ Don't you know what it's really about...
...What they found was an incorrupt politician who worked hard, lived modestly and jogged six miles every day. "The Old Guard hated him because he was so unlike them," said Reiner Oschmann, deputy editor of the once mighty party daily, Neues Deutschland. "He did not preach water and drink wine, as they did." While Modrow built an admirably efficient electronics industry in Dresden, top party leaders feared his popularity and resented his failure to render the obsequious flattery that they had come to expect from underlings...