Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, Americans' new love affair with the grape may be one of the few recorded instances of the consumer leading the industry. More than a million Americans are enrolled in wine appreciation courses; some 160,000 students at 620 college campuses are taking classes in oenology. The meticulous annual "barrel" tasting of new California vintages held by Manhattan's splendid Four Seasons restaurant has become a spectacular. Last winter's event drew requests from more than 2,000 would-be sippers for the 200 available tickets-at $75 each. Some 50,000 oenophiles have taken part...
...right away, Connery spies his lost love, Brooke Adams. Then and there the picture goes blank. As blank as the lady's face, which Director Lester dwells on obsessively, as if fascinated by an actress who uses the same expression in all her scenes. Eventually, she leaves Connery. Her playboy husband (Chris Sarandon) womanizes blatantly while she runs the cigar factory, but she chooses to remain loyal to him even after his untimely demise - untimely because the audience would have felt well rid of him long...
...time and geography, Cope, Idaho, is about as far as you can get from Lincolnian Washington or Edwardian Ireland. But The Noble Enemy (Doubleday; 384 pages; $12.50), set in that no-horse town, is also about death, deceit, love and survival. Charles Fox's novel adds a haunting, imaginative denouement to a news story from the Rockies in the 1960s...
...shadow thrown by the moon on a canted field of snow, a thin sound rising up into the mountains that jostled imperceptibly around them. They sang to obscure this awful scale of time; they sang to obscure their fear; they sang in defiance; they sang to be worthy of love; they sang until they could sing no more." The town's sole motel is called the Ho-Hum. It is a term that will never be applied to this memorable first novel...
...Married Man, Piers Paul Read ∙Old Love, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙On the Edge of the Cliff, V.S. Pritchett ∙Shikasta, Doris Lessing ∙Smiley's People, John le Carre ∙The Executioner's Song,Norman Mailer ∙The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth