Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plight-or potential power-more evident than in the monotonous, sun-scabbed flatlands of Ea,st Los Angeles, where 600,000 Mexican-Americans live. At the confluence of the swooping freeways, the L.A. barrio begins. In tawdry taco joints and rollicking cantinas, the reek of cheap sweet wine competes with the fumes of frying tortillas. The machine-gun patter of slang Spanish is counterpointed by the bellow of lurid hot-rods driven by tattooed pachucos. The occasional appearance of a neatly turned-out Agringado (a Mexican-American who has adapted to Anglo styles) clashes incongruously with the weathered-leather look...
...once aghast to discover that Gene Tunney occasionally read books. So there is no telling how much damage Italy's Giovanni Benvenuti, 29, may do to the image of the sport. Imagine a prizefighter who looks like a Beatle, reads Voltaire, listens to Chopin, and trains on vintage wine. Actually, "Nino" Benvenuti never got past high school in his native Trieste, and something may be lost in the translation, since he speaks only Italian. But his interpreter at least uses words like "impetus" and "counterproductive," and ascribes to Nino such thoughtful pronouncements as "literature is a teacher of life...
...mark in tourists for the first time, and a big attraction, as usual, will be Athens and the islands in the Aegean Sea. For the first time, tourists will have an alternative to bumping from site to site by bus. Instead, ruin viewers can sail the wine-dark sea in comfort on a scenic three-day cruise (for from $75 to $160) aboard the Meltemi, which stops at ports near Delphi, Epidaurus and Corinth...
...classroom works ideally in Galileo. To the audience, the great astronomer plays teacher, a kind of intellectual locksmith picking at the rusty encrustations of habit, custom and tradition as he elucidates his proofs that the earth revolves around the sun. This Galileo is a glutton of food, wine and ideas. As one character says, he has "thinking bouts." As Brecht sees it, this very appetite is Galileo's fatal flaw. His desire to save his skin ranks above any devotion to a pure priesthood of science, any will to suffer death for the truths he had discovered...
...uneasily around the table and present the Name with stock questions. And the Name, who needs only about three minutes to decide that held better forget about eating, painfully replies with careful answers. No one learns very much. On occasion, if the Name is unusually relaxed or the wine is particularly good, or the cigars 15 inches long, Himself will explain how he got started and what it was like...