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Eiswein: "Ice wine" is made from grapes left on the vine in hopes that a frost will beat the birds to the berries. If that happens, the grapes are pressed and the frozen water crystals skimmed off, leaving only the concentrated juice...
Such notions of activist poetry evolved with a tumultuous life, marked with grave personal, artistic and political decisions. Rich's early poetry, though elegant, is politically lackluster, drawing thematically and stylistically on the works of poets like Yeats, Frost and Auden. Her "angrier" later works emerged from a vibrant background of marriage, family, 1960's civil rights activism, anti-Vietnam War protests, an emergent women's movement and personal decisions about sexuality and liberation...
...they're mostly clowns or eunuchs," says Ron Cowen, who executive produces the show and co-wrote the pilot with his life partner, Daniel Lipman. The two have battled the networks to get gay characters on the air since they wrote the Emmy-winning An Early Frost, the first TV movie about aids, back in 1985. When they created NBC's Sisters in 1991, says Lipman, they tried unsuccessfully to make one of the leads gay. So they were attracted by the British QAF's "unapologetic" attitude--about things like drug use in the gay community and the fact that...
...Touretski believes swimming is entrenched in the country's culture. Strong local clubs, rather than colleges, breed promising youngsters, he says, the best of whom go to sports institutes as teenagers. Government funding also supports home-based athletes (such as Thorpe) and their coaches (such as Doug Frost, Thorpe's mentor). A benign climate, particularly in Sydney and Brisbane, offers hundreds of training venues year-round. Supportive parents who cart seven- or eight-year-olds to early-morning squad sessions help achieve great results at a younger age. "There is no country with this culture," says Touretski...
...live at an altitude of 15,000 ft. in several villages south of Cuzco, were amenable. They had had a prophetic vision about traveling to a far land to discuss the world's growing disharmony: pollution in the clouds that wreath their peaks, bizarrely early frost that threatens their potato crops and new parasites that weaken their alpacas. They relayed only a few requests. Would the summit help them get the birth certificates necessary for visas? Would it underwrite three days' horse rental to convey six of their seers to the nearest decent road? Would it be all right...