Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Room] must be utterly blacked out so as not a sliver of light can enter ... Suite must be immaculate ... Accommodations cannot be within one floor of conventioneers ... A gross of extra wooden hangers in YB's bedroom ... All phones must be Touch-Tone with 13-ft. cords ... Wine: The only one he drinks is Chateau Gruaud Larose '66. If hotel does not have it in its wine cellar, order in advance ... Stock YB's kitchen in advance of his arrival with: two heads Bibb lettuce. Nice, fresh. One dozen brown eggs. Under no circumstances white eggs...
...last scene in Orpheus depicts the trio of principal characters sitting down to lunch--in heaven. They have finally broken with pagan spirits and earthly profanity. Orpheus says a few words to God, and Heurtebise offers to pour the wine. The poet stops him from lifting the bottle, saying that Eurydice should serve, and the audience titters for an instant. Once more, Orpheus's plaintive tone prompts a misinterpretation. Apparently the audience grasped the anti-feminist sentiment...
...concession area was set up to handle the different crowd also. Instead of Fenway Park's beer and peanuts or the Garden's pizza and brew, the offerings in the stands included hot dogs, for sure, but also chilled wine served from decanters...
...pressure to present a great musical") is to make everything else equality ridiculous. That way, the show doesn't need to depend on drag jokes or anti-homophile inferences--in fact, they can be eliminated entirely. Instead, in show in which royal banquets where "the liquor flows like wine" are interrupted by would-be regicides with wooden spoons ("to stir the people to rebellion"), the chorus-line becomes one more irrelevant frill, part of an endless series whose insouciance about ordinary standards of sense as well as sensibility lets you just sit back and listen to the one-liners crackle...
...line. "We've got nothing to lose but our chains," is an awful long time coming) than in its unflagging continuity in a texture which-as a friend from Lampoon explained to me--soaks up puns unobtrusively, "the way bread soaks up puns unobtrusively, "the way bread soaks up wine." Almost every line in the script has a joke in it somewhere, often so naturally imbedded in the basic joke of the plot (quailing before Otto da Fe, the Earl of Fourflush who announces that he won't be satisfied "until everyone is dead," one of the heroines vainly offers...