Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cassock is draped over his shoulders and bound with rope at the waist. Macdonald wrote allegorical, spiritual fantasy in a language that can only be described as lyric and dignified. Archetypes people his tales--like Photogen, the "day boy" and Nycteris, the "night girl" whom a witch raised on "wine dark as a carbuncle, and pomegranates, and purple grapes, and birds that dwell in marshy places; and she played to her mournful tunes, and caused wailful violins to attend her, and told her sad tales, thus holding her ever in an atmosphere of sweet sorrow...
...already skewered the girl's affection for him. In The Words He Said, two lovers sit by a bonfire at a country dance, tense, frustrated, until the very heat of the fire seems to raise their feelings to the even hotter temperatures of hate. In Wine, a couple linger in a Paris café. The man recalls a youthful affair. The woman suddenly sees him in his story as she has not seen him in life. With a kind of sinister coincidence his present affair seems to die as he relates the conclusion of his old love...
Fort Knox. Americans, who are increasingly knowledgeable about wine, are among Terrail's favorite guests. La Tour rests above 150,000 bottles of wine, worth at his estimate at least $3 million. ("It's my Fort Knox," he says.) When a guest asks for a Coca-Cola, the waiter invariably replies, "What is that? How do you spell it?" There is one innovation that particularly pleases the well-to-do party giver: Terrail's notion of presenting only the host with a menu that lists prices. (A dinner for two, with a modest wine, will cost...
...sells International Brotherhood of Teamsters grapes and lettuce. Gallo-which produces 40 per cent of all California wine-recently signed a contract with the Teamsters...
...proposal calls for a total A&P commitment to sell only UFW grapes and to stop selling Gallo wine, as well as commitment to sell 95 per cent UFW lettuce...