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