Word: wined
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...most respects, Vedder is showing a surfer's balance. His only visible excess is that he has taken to lugging a bottle of wine around stage when he performs. He has the same girlfriend, Beth Liebling, that he's had for nine years. Even the spat with Nirvana is patched up. "That's all been taken care of now, that whole relationship," he told Melody Maker...
Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock in the streets of San Francisco? The surprise is there was no surprise. Not a San Franciscan eye batted while the makers of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home used a hidden camera to record man-in-the-street reaction to Kirk's glowing wine-red suit or Spock's white robe and ear- covering headband. Just didn't seem strange enough to stand out in the city by the bay. ''One lady even approached me after watching the shoot,'' reports Leonard Nimoy (Spock), ''and said, 'I thought you were a monk or a priest...
...when they exchange profundities on the hoof.'' Burnham's fellow atom-secret keepers, he explains, are into ''research, development and construction of the flatware for the Last Supper.'' Power in Washington meant ''entree (at least once) to redoubtable Georgian manors where the glassware tinkled with clarion clarity and no wine was served before its time.'' Beneath these cracks there sometimes appears a healthy anger with almost as many teeth as Jaws. Not a bad attribute for a for a man who wants to exchange wet fantasies for dry humor. As Johnson (Samuel, not Lyndon) once observed, ''Of all the griefs...
Ever since the disaster, rumors have swirled throughout the country: that Chernobyl survivors could spread radiation like a contagious disease; that victims have been placed in lead coffins and buried in unusually deep graves; that vodka and red wine are effective antidotes to radiation. During a visit to Budapest, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev told Hungarian factory workers, ''Chernobyl has warned us once again: man has set in operation a really fantastic force that must be strictly controlled.'' It was a telling message that surely reverberated last week through the lifeless silence of Pripyat...
...London to an Englishwoman and an American journalist (who ran the Associated Press's London bureau), graduated from Dartmouth College and went to film school at the University of South California. There he conceived his study of Native Americans; he planned to call it Thunderbird, after their favorite wine. He worked out the story with the main characters, whose reminiscences he taped and used as the voiceover narration...