Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What London saw were 38 paintings as clean and clear as light mountain wine. Ghika's style is closest to cubism, but a cubism tempered and refined with a solid, realistic touch. On Ghika's canvas, Paris' chimneyed rooftops, the jackstraw confusion of a Greek hillside town become strict, disciplined designs blocked in with arbitrary colors. But there is no trouble recognizing what he paints: his sharp draftsmanship shows all the cruel dryness of Greece's stony uplands, its patterned fields, searing sun, and gaunt, bare-limbed fig trees. Said London's Observer, after seeing...
Another variation is Lamb Taskempap, much like Souvalakia, but with a wine sauce. Its slight tartness makes it blend well with Spinakopeta, or spinach pie, made with Feta cheese and topped with layers of pastry...
...wine for the meat course is Hymettus, a Greek red wine whose dry smoothness goes especially well with spiced meat. But the Valiant Burgundy is quite adequate for those preferring a domestic brew...
...point out that the curator whose duty it is to provide the best goods he can for the Common Room, cannot possibly accept presents from any tradespeople concerned. He thinks it only fair to warn Messrs. Snow that any repetition of such attention may seriously affect their provision as wine merchants dealt with by the Common Room...
...final word about the life of a curator Surely," he wrote one day, "any curator worthy of the name would be found if physically tested, to possess a density directly and a gravity inversely varying as the potency of port; if tested anatomically, to have the word 'wine' neatly emblazoned on his heart; and if finally submitted to quantitative analysis, to consist primarily of C4H602," which, in early 19th century chemistry, spells alcohol...