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Gallo argues that the best way to boost wine consumption in the U.S. is to start the beginner off on the pints of 49? and 69? sweet wines for which he is famous. "Then," he explains, "after a couple of years, they'll be drinking a drier wine." Meanwhile, Gallo's judgment of the public taste results in the sale of millions of gallons of his artificially flavored Ripple, and Thunderbird-both spiked with...
...schmalzier ones by his friend Rimsky-Korsakov. This season the Met decided to try the version scored by Shostakovich in 1940 but never before presented on the U.S. stage. The result is a brassy, full-throated Boris, stridently dramatic and highly colored (especially when compared with the thinner, drier orchestration of Boris by Karol Rathaus previously used...
Miss Daneel is a very captivating woman, but she is frequently unconvincing as an actress. She is supposed to cry at several points, for example, but a drier eye was never seen. Moreover, she tends to squeal when she speaks, and she minces about excessively. Mr. Danielewski is the more successful of the pair. But it takes an extremely experienced artist to direct himself in a starring role, and even then the results usually leave much to be desired. His performance is too subdued, his staging indecisive and vague, and there is far too much stage business. He does...
Balanchine's plotless episodes were set to later, drier Webern-music that chattered, squeaked, moaned and repeatedly died away in cacophonous little cries. Dance matched music with some wonderfully inventive and often funny sequences of movement. In one pas de deux (set to Five Pieces, Opus 10), Balanchine has a man and a woman approach each other time and again in an elaborate effort to embrace, only to have a final miscalculation leaving them clutching at air. Vastly different in their approaches, both Balanchine and Graham were remarkably successful at illuminating Webern's sparse, mostly atonal scores-perhaps...
With the flight of time, some tissues become drier and infiltrated with fat. Blood vessels harden (arteriosclerosis). Muscles weaken. Bones grow brittle. Eyes and ears gradually fail, from a number of complex, minute structural changes. Ironically, the teeth-such as are left of them -become more resistant to decay in later life. On empirical evidence, Shakespeare anticipated microanatomy when he said that the oldster is "sans taste," for the average number of taste buds is 208 during the prime of life, but only 88 after...