Recently I attended two extraordinary dinners in New York, one featuring the precise, focused red Burgundies of René Engel and the other the exquisite Côte-Rôties of Marius Gentaz.
His extraordinary song "Dinner at Eight", in particular, which explores all of his resentment and love toward the father who left the family home, is the most visceral son-to-father lyric I've ever heard.
At the same time, though, my father was very distant from us and very hard to get to at all.' That relationship and that absence is at the root of many of Rufus Wainwright's own yearning melodies, he believes, but it finds its most poignant expression in the extraordinary song 'Dinner at Eight' on Want One which describes a confrontation with his father at a restaurant some years ago.
"She would weave this extraordinary time of dinner dances and the Hamptons — a time she recollects very clearly".
In an excerpt from "Tropic of Cancer," the narrator is so smitten with Germaine, an extraordinary trollop, that "after dinner we went back to the hotel again and took another shot at it.
But why miss the chance to experience a dinner of such extraordinary imagination, not to mention astonishing duration?
The United States-China summit meeting ended tonight with a formal state dinner after an extraordinary live televised exchange between President Clinton and Jiang Zemin, the Chinese President, over human rights, Tibet and China's path to the future.
Does this mean you can take a bottle of $5 plonk, stick it in the Oak Bottle for the afternoon and by evening be sipping something so extraordinary you could fool your dinner guests into thinking it's a pedigreed Bordeaux?
She looked after her widowed mother, who lived with us nearly their entire married life; taught me how to read, write and do arithmetic; drove me hither and yon to play dates; and cooked extraordinary food, of which five dinners each week were expected to be Chinese.
