Word: corks
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...between dancing with some other friends, Arnaud Poulain (the French guy) told me that he wanted to buy a bottle of champagne. After a mediocre attempt on my part to dissuade Ashley from ordering Cristal, she told the waiter her selection. While the sparklers in the Cristal cork were going off, Arnaud gave me the first sign that he may not have been driving a Ferrari when he arrived at “veep.” “I am a personal friend avec Jean-Claude Van Damme,” he said in broken English...
Popping the cork off a bottle of 2003 Commanderie de Peyrassol, a wine grown in the vineyards of south France, White illustrated this three-step process...
...wipe out the Unionist population of Northern Ireland, but fought a guerrilla war against the British army to attain Irish sovereignty in the North. To compare the conflict in Northern Ireland with the twisted ideologies of the emerging fascist right in the new Russia is nonsense. Mark Eiffe Cork City, Ireland Your article on young Nazis in Russia may surprise a lot of people, but not if you are Jewish. After things got really bad in Russia in the early 1900s, my great-grandfather left and went to Germany. All his family had was what they carried...
...COUNTY CORK, Ireland—Since Ireland is one of the most Catholic countries in the world and I’ve missed one mass too many, it’s probably a good time for confession. I’m only 25 percent Irish. Now, don’t worry, it’s not a mortal sin—I have never tried to pass myself off as anything more. But the combination of my full-Irish grandmother and my preoccupation with Irish culture is enough to convince everyone that I’m at least half Irish...
...folks, to a national icon whose rendition of ?America the Beautiful? achieved something like Kate Smith status. Was Charles, as one of his own albums proclaimed, a ?genius?? We?ll save that word for Mozart. But he was surely the genie let out of the R&B bottle. The cork got lost, and American popular music was never the same...