Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hocked his mother's jade hairpins to help pay off debts amounting to more than $1 million. By 1975, however, his assets in Washington included a $750,000 office building, two houses worth $1.2 million, a fleet of at least two limousines and sports cars, an expensively stocked wine cellar and about 300 well-tailored suits. He had also squirreled away an undetermined amount of money in numbered accounts at several foreign banks...
...Country, near Williamsburg, has a vast Festhaus where visitors can quaff Michelob and munch bratwurst. The company's Dark Continent, near Tampa, has replicated a famed Swiss inn and offers one of the few gourmet menus in the world that allows the diner to eat, sip wine and overlook the goings-on of free-ranging chimps, giraffes, zebras, ostriches and elephants...
...shooting government officials. Police captured Curcio in late 1974, but his wife, Margherita Cagol, led a commando raid against the lightly guarded prison and rescued him. Four months later, police closed in on Curcio's wife at a farm where she and some confederates were holding a kidnaped wine merchant. In the fight, Margherita, 29, was shot dead. When the authorities finally trapped Curcio in January 1976, they imprisoned him at the remote island of Asinara, northwest of Sardinia, where he shared a small windowless cell with two other captives...
Adroit, stylish, nimble, this is a first-rate revival of a classic. Here is Wilde, the autocrat of the dining table, drop ping epigrams like pearls before wine...
Finally, for those who prefer fermented grapes to grains, several local restaurants have varied wine collections. The Wine Bar, on the second floor of the Garage, has a fine--if expensive--selection of wines, which go very well with their excellent desserts. You might also try the Blue Parrot and the Ha'Penny, which are both located on Mt. Auburn...