Word: wined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They shatter a wine glass with a high pitch sound, use a ripple tank to demonstrate wave interactions and blast off across the lecture hall in a carbon dioxide-propelled rocket. Who are the people who perform these spectacular demonstrations during science lectures...
...chosen a certain social circle and I can't point fingers at Harvard when I've willingly involved myself in it, but the very availability of such a life is fairly amazing. My first-year photos are of boys in tuxedos, girls in full length dresses and everyone sipping wine. I refuse to believe this is how the average 18-year-old on a college campus behaves. It is fun to dress up. It is fun to sip wine. But once we graduate, the worlds where there are formal dinners, teas and cocktail parties are worlds with money...
Giannini also made a career out of lending to out-of-favor industries. He helped the California wine industry get started, then bankrolled Hollywood at a time when the movie industry was anything but proven. In 1923 he created a motion-picture loan division and helped Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith start United Artists. When Walt Disney ran $2 million over budget on Snow White, Giannini stepped in with a loan...
...appreciated by the masses, but I plead guilty to a kind of food obsession that make raspberry squares only the idle munching that accompanies true plans for greatness: a casual lunch of spinachball appetizers, turkey scallopine with mushrooms in a marsala sauce, roasted eggplant, wild rice, a good white wine and a suitably square, suitably raspberry dessert choice...
...have a very particular meaning in Roman Catholicism: they signify ordination. But Ramerman is a woman and, according to church doctrine, cannot be ordained. It did not help that she stood next to the priest during Mass, read the preface to the Eucharistic prayer and raised the chalice of wine at the end of the prayer--activities that are the purview of the ordained. For years the Vatican peppered the Bishop of Rochester with complaints about Corpus Christi and probably made its feelings clear during his official visit to Rome this year. The message: Such heresies must not be tolerated...