Word: wining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight for a seat at ABP is like the Grenada invasion, the battle for a table at the Coffee Connection is like D-Day. Customers wait in line for 20 minutes only to be sneered at by the trendier-than-thou "waitrons." More finicky than wine stewards, they'll wrinkle their pierced noses at you if you make an ordering faux-pas. How come they are so cocky? If I could look forward to nothing better than a lifetime of changing soggy filters, I would be the picture of despair...
...gourmet coffee is a wine for the nineties. There is the snobbery about country of origin, the niggling distinctions about process of preparation, and the gratuitous use of descriptive yet totally inaccurate adjectives to distinguish flavor. The coffee illuminati can sip their Kenya AA or $30-per-pound Jamaican Blue Mountain while they debate the comparative merit of washed and dry-milled beans with an air of enlightened self-satisfaction...
...there are plenty of them to be missed. The Wine-Dark Sea (Norton; 261 pages; $22) is the 16th installment of what devotees call the Aubrey/Maturin novels. All are set in the early 19th century, during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, and all feature the same two heroes: Jack Aubrey, a blunt, brave captain in the British Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, a ship's surgeon, amateur naturalist and sometimes spy for His Majesty's government...
...like all its predecessors, The Wine-Dark Sea sometimes tacks into some pretty choppy stretches of technicalities: "upper-tree, side-trees, heel-pieces, side-fishes, cheeks, front-fish and cant-pieces, all scarfed, coaked, bolted, hooped and woolded together." But such passages are there for atmospherics rather than information, and they sometimes seem to be delivered with an authorial wink. In one of the running jokes in the series, Maturin, far more comfortable on land than on sea, frequently doesn't understand what his shipmates are saying. Occasionally he feigns ignorance. When Aubrey uses the term "shaped the mast," Maturin...
Celebrating athletes may shower it on themselves in victory, but Champagne is meant to be drunk, not worn, a French court ruled. Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, who introduced his newest scent, Champagne, to Europe on Sept. 20, has no right to use the name of the wine in France and must pay the three champagne producers who filed suit a total...