Word: wined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...balmy breeze with nothing more pressing than whether to read a novel or visit a sugar plantation in old Barbados. The stuff of romance, yes. But in the Capitol, it is the essence of lobbying. Lobbying mixes people of the same interests and temperament, adds good food, fine wine and the occasional getaway -- and also produces relationships. And just because one of the companions always picks up the tab doesn't make the liaisons meaningless. Indeed, in most cases, the links are all too serious...
Last meal: half a bottle of Carmel, a dry red Israeli wine...
...walked away from the group of teenagers, I realized that they were very similar to me and to other American teenagers. I say "bonjour" and "au revoir" once in a while. I wear a beret occasionally and drink French wine because I think these things are pretty cool. And while I don't have a problem using these bits and pieces of the French culture in my everyday life, I would have a problem giving up my language, religion or dress for the sake of universality...
Patrick Dempsey; Well, I think it doesn't matter who is a student at that point. It doesn't matter what college you go to, it was a basic college party. You know, there was the beer. I was like, is there any wine here? No no no, it was just beer, keg parties, stuff like that. And it'd depend on where you were at, what final club you went to. You know, the Lampoon is a different party altogether than from like, say, you go to the Owl Club. That's whole, a whole, a whole different ballgame...
...were designed to punish the military and its elite backers for overthrowing President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in September 1991. Yet even a modicum of money buys a pleasant life-style in Haiti. Ships from Europe keep stores in middle-class Petionville stocked with Italian artichoke hearts and Georges Duboeuf wine from France. Last December the so-called friends of Haiti -- the U.S., France, Canada and Venezuela -- warned the military that they would seek a worldwide U.N. embargo on all commercial goods to Haiti unless progress was made to restore Aristide to power by Jan. 15. That threat proved hollow, however...