Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter that TV serials portray alcoholism and homosexuality or that bikini-clad models frolic in commercials for Caribbean resorts. By fiat of the Television Code Authority of the National Association of Broadcasters, TV commercials have long been forbidden to show beer and wine actually being consumed or undergarments stretched over living, quivering flesh. If viewers who did not want to watch earthy programs were assaulted by racy commercials, the broadcasters feared, the industry would face charges of offending community standards of good taste...
...silently to himself-a rare skill in the ancient world. Discussing the opening of the Council of Trent, the great 16th century Catholic assembly that began the Counter Reformation, he observes how Christoforo Madruzzo, the host bishop, opened the meeting with a 74-dish banquet and 100-year-old wine. After dinner, Madruzzo led off the dancing with ladies...
...prefers to draw back and let us laugh at people and situations--a man with his pants down at a formal dinner, a woman about to slit her wrists who stops to fix her makeup instead, or a drunk at a wedding who obliges propriety by carefully filling his wine glass and then takes a swig out of the bottle anyway. As funny as Tacchella makes some of these scenes, we wind up yearning for some of these scenes, we wind up yearning for some individuals with self-awareness and panache...
...Penny, under the Blue Parrot on Mt. Auburn St., has live music too, but it tends toward the folkish and is always full of rather bizarre people who are looking for someone to pick up. Not cheap, but they have a better selection of wines than most places around--although if you're setting yourself up as a wine connoisseur, you should probably go to the Wine Bar in the garage instead--but prepared to spend...
...hears that Harvard's football team has won their league championship; he invites them over for pepperoni and homemade wine. You've got a beef with the way city government is run? Al will talk it over with you, anytime, his place over pepperoni and homemade wine. You're a journalist looking for an interview? Come on over tonight, we're having lasagna dinner at city hall and, oh yes, there might be some special Vellucci brand homemade wine. It may not be the accepted panacea for all your political ills, but, in Al's mind, you can get pretty...