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...father was an expert in vine management--the pruning, spacing, grape thinning and irrigating that influence the quality of the grapes and the taste of the wine. As a young boy, Jon cleared weeds between the vines. He later went to work at the Callaway winery as a "cellar rat," cleaning tanks, moving barrels, stacking bottles and sometimes working 19-hr. days during the busy crush season. "By high school," he recalls, "I swore I was going to get out of the wine business...
...long hours directing a company that sold 45 million cases of wine last year. But as the wine industry has become more corporate--60% of U.S. wine is produced by the top five companies--he no longer has much time to stroll through vineyards or sample vintages from the cellar...
Sproul says that this year she’s been exploring Cambridge and Central Square with her roommates, buying drinks and spending money at bars like the People’s Republik and the Cellar. But though Sproul has enjoyed these adventures, she also feels distant from Harvard, and from her age group generally...
...square, was one of the last activists at-large. He was being sheltered by friends and relatives in his native Heilongjiang province. But the Public Security Bureau was determined to smoke out the remaining rebels, and Zhang's arrest was made a top priority. He hid in a cellar beneath an uncle's home, then fled for the Soviet border. Later, he heard that a furious official had given a tacit shoot-to-kill order to be rid of him. Zhang dubs those days "the red terror," and claims that across China house-to-house searches, arbitrary detainments and death...
Shyamalan is a poet of grieving. His movies dwell in bruised hearts and work deftly to find stirrings there. At times he surrenders to a few horror-film tropes (an army of monsters may be chasing us - let's hide in the cellar!). But Signs is, after all, a chamber piece, handsomely acted by its small cast, in which two sets of siblings must learn to be their brother's keepers. This makes the film a sober, superior thriller. - By Richard Corliss...