Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, but dry white wine with crème de cassis is an old Burgundian pick-me-up known as rinse cochon, pig rinse. As Mayor of Dijon the good Canon Kir must know the drink's real name. I wonder if he finds it flattering...
...removing his gloves only to put on the brass bracelets that symbolize Montagnard friendship. Solemnly, 250 Montagnard rebels knelt before him to pledge allegiance to the Saigon government. Then, as Ky, a host of government officials, and U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge looked queasily on, the Montagnards poured rice wine over the Premier's boots and slashed a water buffalo to death in honor of the Saigon visitors. Fortunately, the sacrifice took only five minutes rather than the usual hour or more. Both lowlanders and highlanders seem to have learned something about cross-cultural sensibilities...
...three-piece wine-red velvet getup might have sold well in London's Carnaby Street. As it happened, the gear was up for grabs on more conservative New Bond Street, where Sotheby's was auctioning off a suit worn by King...
George III in the days when he was taxing the shirt off his American colonies. A colonial very nearly got the threads back. Industrialist Jack Stallworth of Mobile, Ala., had a friend bid $500 for the wine-red number and three other 18th century outfits, only to have Lady Cecilia Howard, owner of Castle Howard in Yorkshire, outbid him by $18 for the King's old clothes...
...Grape Wine portrays Wyeth's friend and handyman Willard Snowden. Since 1964, he has painted the wine-loving Negro drifter often in wistful poses suggestive of eternal human patience. Says Wyeth: "He gave me a chance to paint something timeless, ageless, endless. He's all of the Brandywine Valley, its dankness and brooding power...