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...ULTIMATE TASTE TEST Our man samples some of the costliest comestibles [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] THE PRICE $120 24-oz. bottle of Samuel Adams Utopias beer $50 3-lb. container of the Best Butter on Earth $182 A set of two 500-mL bottles of Lambda olive oil WHY IT COSTS SO MUCH The brandy-colored beverage is a blend of malts aged in wood, then finished in sherry and Madeira casks The Five Star Butter Co. makes its lavish 83%-butterfat product from fresh, unpasteurized milk Hand-extracted from Koroneiki olives...
...possibility that a black hole eats up the earth is too serious a threat to leave it as a matter of argument among crackpots.' MICHELANGELO MANGANO, theorist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), in response to a U.S. lawsuit charging that CERN's new particle accelerator could endanger the planet...
...Martin Scorsese, instructing a camera operator to catch the action on the street and above. Gloriously above. The shot zooms upward from Scorsese to catch the crowd, then higher and faster so we see the marquee, then the neighborhood; and faster still, in an astronaut's view of receding Earth, until we can see all of Manhattan island illuminated by a full moon that dissolves into the Stones' jolly red-tongue logo. In Shine a Light, the master of the impossible tracking shot has topped himself again...
...just don’t care. At the end of the day, Barry Bonds is an incredible athlete, even if he was using steroids, and sports is hardly the only arena where cutthroat competition encourages a win-by-any-means mentality. But most of these insights are not especially earth-shattering. One of the pitfalls of writing a book for and about the Common Fan is that the Common Fan already knows most of what Leitch has to say. We know that owners like Peter Angelos, who has famously enraged fans by treating the Baltimore Orioles like a business venture...
...said, "the growth industry during the Bush Administration." He talked about the Administration's mendacity, its incompetence during Hurricane Katrina, its lack of transparency. But he never returned to the question of patriotism. He never said, "But hey, look, we're Americans. This is the greatest country on earth. We'll rise to the occasion...