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Word: wining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moses Wine is a sometime Berkeley activist and law school dropout, now beginning a new life and career as a Los Angeles private detective. He drives an unprepossessing yellow Volkswagen convertible and often has to take his two kids along when he's on a stakeout-his ex-wife being much preoccupied with her est-like training and her live-in, est-like trainer. The rest of his family consists of an aunt who once waltzed with Bakunin in Russia, and is too busy to be much help with the kids: she's trying to radicalize her senior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Private Eye Full of Wry | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...portrayed by Richard Dreyfuss, Moses Wine is a character of rare vintage. Indeed, it's not too much to say that he is the best, most entertaining figure anyone has managed to invent for an American movie this year. Moses not only is an amusing variant on the classic lonely guy, private-eye character, but Screenwriter Simon, adapting his own novel, also employs him for purposes of wry and rueful social observation. The well-plotted mystery tale quite compassionately reveals how a lot of '60s radicals have signed on with the System that was once thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Private Eye Full of Wry | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Schneider Tavern Opening: Come to the Pub for beer, wine, munchies and entertainment. Silent flicks. Schneider Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT is to be done at? | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

Friday, October 13: Happy Hour--Charlie's Pub. Wine and beer, college ID required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT is to be done at? | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

Friday, October 13: Happy Hour. Charlie's Pub. Wine and beer. 6:30-9 pm. College ID required...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT is to be done at? | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

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