Word: wining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardy and tough-minded race whose blood lines stretch to every Mediterranean port from Genoa and Malta to Athens and Alexandria; many, like Molly Bloom herself, are descended from Spanish mothers and British soldier fathers. Though Spanish is the common tongue and the Gibraltarian palate approves fiery paella and wine, the citizens want no part of Spain's political system or sovereignty. Instead the elected members of the Legislative Council, led by Chief Member Sir Joshua Hassan, want full internal self-government in a free association with Britain. And they want Britain finally to take countermeasures against the Franco...
...Wine in the Morning. In Moreau's own eyes, her life is no more real in fact than in fantasy. "How annoyed I get to hear people speak of 'the profession of acting,' " she says. "The only thing worse is when they say, 'You're a real pro.' Acting is not a profession at all; it's a way of living-one completes the other. What an actor needs is a sense of involvement, an unconscious familiarity with his role, nothing more than that. There's no point in pursuing the character...
...come out the other side, once the movie is made. "The drama of her life is that there is no difference between her acting and her private life," says Producer Raoul Levy, uneasily recalling that during the shooting of Moderato Cantabile in 1960, she started drinking wine in the morning, duplicating the troubling habit of the suicidal character she played. Says her friend Marguerite Duras, who wrote Moderato: "She emerges from her films a convalescent, both physically and morally...
Fears that hundreds of hungry Harvard men might swarm to Radcliffe to enjoy the wine and candlelight of Wednesday night interhouse have proved groundless...
...streets torn up," is Author Stacton's description of a Spanish army bivouac into which a couple of his characters have strayed during the Thirty Years War. Stacton could also be describing his own novel abovit that war. In that camp, the civilians-stable boys, prostitutes, grooms, bakers, wine sellers, nurses, wives, peddlers, moneylenders, cardsharps, children, thieves, thugs, priests, a company of traveling actors-outnumber the soldiers by as much as eight to one, and the same wild and brutalized rabble roils through the pages of the book. All are lit up as if by the lurid flare...