Word: wining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indefinable lineage. Rising out into the bright night sky, thick acrid bellows of smoke reach for the high-scudding clouds. A spectral group of dancers passes by, cavorting to the raucous notes of a kazoo. Men and women are madly intertwined in their grimy jeans, holding out bottles of wine to balance their steps. Like shadows stretched across a brick wall, these forms stumble onward--players possessed by the harkening strains of Death in a Medieval Dance...
...numbers. After the first few places we have no idea who is in what position. The cars come hurtling at us, then down and away in a matter of five seconds. For the next 100 seconds we are left with an empty track, changing foliage, and a bottle of wine...
...students in the caucus would take stands on such issues as the Gallo wine boycott, University workers' strikes, and selections of trustees for the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, James G. Lemoyne '75, a coauthor of the report, said yesterday...
...according to a cynical Paris critic. There are prizes for the best novels about soccer, vacations, volcanoes and happy old age. The Grand Prix Litteraire des Vins du Périgord de la Région de Bergerac goes to the best literary celebration of the glories of Perigord wine. First prize: half a barrel of Périgord wine. The Prix Mystère et Cognac, which was unfortunately abolished this year, traditionally went to the best detective novel whose hero drank cognac. There are even awards for losers. The coveted Prix Cazes goes to a writer...
...Jones is a bright street hustler who stutters in frustrated rage at his tantalizing inability to outdistance self-defeat. He managed to kick heroin during his only prison term and has stayed off it since he got out three years ago. But he takes in coke, pot and wine as naturally as most people breathe. He is also a clothes junkie, and whenever he is flush after a few muggings, the money goes in an endless effort to look "fly." Platform shoes are a hazard to his trade, since fast getaways are critical, but he wears them even when mugging...