Word: bacchanalian
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...much fun, they decided, that very soon they were drinking it in bacchanalian quantities. Brand new Beaujolais was the young wine of choice. made and then bottled at extraordinary speed from grapes harvested only a few weeks earlier. No fashionable cafe was complete without it: the more...
Cashing in on the new ascendancy of Italian wines in the U.S., a number of tour operators are offering a variety of wine tours, with immense success. One extravaganza, a twelve-day Bacchanalian Trip organized by Compagnia Italiana Turismo (CIT), meets guests at the Rome airport and deposits them, twelve vinous days later, at the Turin airport. The $698 immersion includes hotels, unlimited wine bibbing, visits to vineyards and cellars in the major winegrowing areas, and espresso and sympathy the mornings after...
...friends down the road, and they cruise all night. Three carloads of drugged, glassy-eyed, wild-haired teenage girls lurch along dirt roads, frenetic music stimulating them like an electric cattle prod into disjointed spasms. Snaporaz eventually flees, panicked, into the pleasure palace of Dr. Xavier Zuberkock, an aging Bacchanalian who calls to mind the incoherent but dynamic Mynheer Peeperkorn of Mann's Magic Mountain...
...ruined Yale's bid for an undefeated season and turned an otherwise dismal 1979 Harvard campaign into a bacchanalian celebration. More than 72,000 fans--the largest Bowl crowd since 1954--streamed onto the field here two seconds before the final gun, mobbing the Harvard players and wreaking havoc in otherwise boring New Haven...
...many of the elements which made The Petrified Forest a great film are missing in Red Ryder. The most important of these is restraint. Bogey was actually at his hammiest in Petrified Forest, but he communicated with the economy of a professional. Gortner's performance, for all its Bacchanalian intensity, lacks just this sort of professionalism. We cannot help but admire his characterization. Half demented encounter group leader, half psychotic drill sergeant, he strips people naked with a sentence. He tells the fat adolescent waitress nobody will marry her. He calls her macho greaser heart-throb, Red Ryder, a fairy...