Word: wining
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Some legal experts also warn that prenatal drug-use prosecutions could open the way to punishing women for many other kinds of behavior during pregnancy. What about drinking? Smoking? Taking prescription drugs? Or working too hard? "Are we going to be policing people's wine closets?" asks Stanford University law-school professor Deborah Rhode. Other legal scholars insist that such "slippery slope" arguments are exaggerated; laws commonly distinguish between reckless behavior and acceptable risk...
Leifer talks "for better or worse, about my personal experiences. I have a new joke about going out to dinner. You know, you order a bottle of wine, and they give you the cork? I feel like a jerk, sitting there sniffing and going, 'Yep, that's cork.' I said that to a waiter and he laughed. I thought, Gee, maybe I should try that...
Beer guzzlers and wine sippers were pressed to the railings of Shay's Wine Bar Cafe and other local hangouts last Satuday night in a scene that has become familiar to denizens of Harvard Square in the past two years...
Republican Bob Packwood responded to pleas from the Oregon Winegrowers' Association to fight an 18 cents-per-bottle tax increase on wine. Packwood delivered: vineyards that produce less than 150,000 gal. a year will be exempt from the increase, and those that turn out up to 250,000 gal. will be partly spared. Roughly 1,000 of the 1,400 wineries in the nation, including 80 in Oregon, will get the breaks. Packwood has received $7,000 from the industry's political-action committees (PACs...
BURGUNDY by Robert M. Parker Jr. (Simon & Schuster; $39.95). A magisterial but awkwardly organized tasting guide to recent vintages from this French province by America's leading wine critic. Parker, as always, is pungently direct in designating picks and pans: a 1985 Romanee-Conti, scored a perfect 100, is "utterly mind-blowing," while a 1987 Echezeaux, rated 69, is "woody, stemmy, green and thin...