Word: hardness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wine was quite possibly the only undertaking in which Thomas Jefferson ever admitted defeat. The most grievous blow of all was the Prohibition era, in which the wine industry died on the vine. It has not been helped since by many Americans' two-fisted addiction to beer and hard liquor or aversion to alcohol in any form (dry and blue laws). Yet the past decade has seen the completion of a delicious circle: the American discovery of wine, on a large scale, as a part of the civilized life, and the maturing of an industry capable of satisfying sophisticated...
...football fields to age their wines in casks of French and Yugoslav oak. While they are the General Motors of American wine, in the tastings they enter the Gallos consistently win the kind of awards that go to Ferraris. Indeed, few California vintners of any size work so hard on the all-important process of vinification, the actual making of the wine...
...Christopher Lee vampire movie as Castro moves in for the kill. The decadence of Batista's supporters appears about as wild as that of the fast crowd in an Ohio country club, while Castro's revolutionaries behave like a hirsute Boy Scout troop. It is hard to believe that this dumb picture is the work of the director who did the delicious Three Musketeers movies...
...quite the same any more. Bert Parks, 65, for 25 years the mellow master of ceremonies whose rendition of that unguent ballad had become something of a late-summer tradition, has not been invited back for 1980's Miss America contest. Parks took the news hard: "I never thought they'd pull a trick like this. It's a little shabby, isn't it?" No reason was given for his ouster, nor was a successor announced. Some names have been dropped, such as those of Entertainer John Davidson, 38, as sincere as Bert but far younger...
...Staying together over Christmas vacation and swimming together is like building up your bank account for hard times to come," he said. "When Princeton and Indiana come, we will still have plenty left in the till...