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...bottle of beer? I am an intolerable food snob, but I am also from middle-class New Jersey, and the upper reaches of the grocery aisles can make me want to smash something, like a tiny bottle of $145 balsamic vinegar that comes in a box with a 106-page book...
Some other insanely priced foods I sampled were also impressive. The Lambda olive oil from Greece, retailing at $182 for 1,000 mL, came packaged in more gift-box euphoria than anything Tiffany could imagine. The company says it presses its olives less than 10 hours after they're picked, which didn't impress me all that much--how long do people normally leave olives sitting around?--but the oil really was intense, with an acidless buttery, fruity, peppery flavor. You're supposed to use it on vegetables or with bread--though I still wouldn't pay this much even...
...miraculous. Many expected that white rule in Southern Africa would end in a bloodbath. But there was a price. While the new rulers accepted the notions of Western-style multiparty democracy, in their hearts the liberation movements did not contemplate that they could lose power at the ballot box...
...intellectual challenge - "disrupting their expectations," as McGregor puts it - than entertaining them in the traditional fashion. This isn't new in itself; what's new is the arrival of conceptual work in the dance establishment's mainstream. McGregor's Chroma, a starkly beautiful piece set in a minimalist box of white light, was the popular hit of the 2006-07 Royal Ballet season at London's Covent Garden, and led to his being appointed the Royal's resident choreographer - a radical evolution given that he has no formal classical-dance training. Other McGregor pieces are now in the repertoires...
...Abuse is an unpleasant experience,” Durso said. “The victims are taking that experience, putting it in a little box in the back of their mind, and closing it and not opening it until certain circumstances make it come forth...