Word: bloomerism
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...Riesling limelike, the Gewurztraminer spicy, and the glorious grape of Burgundy, Pinot Noir, velvety. The wineries are friendly and ready to receive. Some, like Fox Run, have gift shops stocking local products like Lively Run Goat Dairy (love the goat feta). There's a cool cafe next to Bloomer Creek called the Stonecat, which has become a local winemakers' hangout. The summer fruits are fantastic (Red Jacket Orchards' apricots are not to be missed), and there are a bunch of really fun hokey events like Fox Run's annual Garlic Festival, which takes place Aug. 7-8 this year...
...shows: four with Hart ("Pal Joey," "The Boys from Syracuse," "Babes in Arms" and "A Connecticut Yankee"), one with Hammerstein ("Allegro") and one as his own lyricist ("No Strings"). Cole Porter ("Out of This World," "Du Barry Was a Lady," "Can-Can!") and Harold Arlen ("St. Louis Woman," "Bloomer Girl," "House of Flowers") each had three musicals revived, George Gershwin two ("Strike Up the Band," "Pardon My English"). His brother Ira did the lyrics for those and for two other Encores! specials ("Lady in the Dark," "Ziegfeld Follies of 1936"). Jerome Kern ("Sweet Adeline") and Irving Berlin ("Call Me Madam...
...know what? If you don't like it, don't read it. This to me is the major rite of passage of adulthood. I was a late bloomer. I was late in my 30s before I could do it. Give something more than two pages, but if you're on page 50 and you don't like it, forcing yourself to read it will just make you get mad. Life's too short. There are too many books...
...Late Bloomer On a personal level, Cheney was not always a bull-by-the-horns guy. After Cheney graduated from high school, Tom Stroock, a local oilman who was impressed by the young man, arranged his entrance and full scholarship to Yale. After four semesters, Cheney's grades were so bad, the university asked him to leave. David Nicholas, who has known Cheney since junior high school and who went to Harvard, thinks part of the problem was that the Casper schools had not prepared the boys for Ivy League academics. "We were competing with kids who went to Andover...
...lesson, he says, is that it's okay to be a late bloomer...