There is a well-travelled image of Denton on the Web, in which he is wearing a tuxedo and tilting a wineglass to his lips.

NEWYORKER: Search and Destroy

Oddly enough, in a wineglass it's pretty darn nice.

FORBES: Faking It

For more than 30 years chalk in one hand, wineglass in the other he has conducted a Latin summer school in Rome, holding many classes sub arboribus 11 in the conversational style of the ancient world.

ECONOMIST: So you thought that irksome language was dead?

The opera diva Bianca Castafiore, a coiffed and generously bosomed regular feature of the books, makes a guest appearance and warbles Rossini, shattering every wineglass, fish tank, and chandelier in sight which is special fun in 3-D.

NEWYORKER: Double Dare

When I bent my legs and peered in, I could see his back, and the back of his head, and, across the table from him, my smiling radiant wife lifting her wineglass as if in acknowledgment of something he had said.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield