Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swayed from his unhesitating ruthlessness is when he picks up a derelict girl (Marilyn Nash) in order to test a new poison and finds that she, like him, could "kill for love." When he discovers their similarity, she gains his respect. He removes her poisoned glass of wine with as skillful a subterfuge as he used to introduce it. After he is tried and convicted, he attacks his accusers in a powerful but restrained Victorian style...
...music is so simple--it seems as though there's an army of cellos waltzing together, or a chorus of very simple, ordinary people. The people might all know one another very well. Or they might just be strangers at the back of some coffeehouse, passing around bottles of wine or beer and joining in the choruses while someone recites the verses--that could be the melodies at the beginning, and maybe even the ecstatic double-stopped trill at the end--just because they all felt they'd enjoy singing together. The music reminds me of the scene...
...seventy-four dollars every week. He lives beside, and almost underneath the elevated railroad in the poorest block of the South End. He eats left-over cold-cuts, bread and pastries brought home from the corporation cafeteria, drinks (when he has cash to drink at all) the cheapest red wine. He receives no health insurance and no benefits for overtime. He gets two weeks of paid vacation every year--is forced, however, to work at Christmas, New Year and Thanksgiving...
...Wine Time. While Joe Tomaszewski's boys play the Happy-Go-Lucky Polka, two representatives of the Richfield American Legion Clown Club do their turns for Bernie's 100-odd invited guests and scores of passersby. Bernie figures the festivities have cost him $400, which he paid out of his purple checkbook (he writes in purple...
...Rodney Becker and two other couples have driven 90 miles from Turtle Lake, Wis. Becker, a grocer, brings not only food and liquor for 40 friends but also a Xeroxed schedule of Sunday's events: "Wake 8 a.m.-Green Bay fans calisthenics; 8:30 a.m.-Viking fans calisthenics." Wine drinking and "rest" come next, leaving three hours for a breakfast of eggs, pancakes, sausage and more wine...