Word: grapes
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Atlantic City, like Lourdes and Graceland, is a community based on faith. It is sustained by believers like Anna Zawicki, a street sultana taking her ease beneath the lavender awning of Bally's Park Place Casino Hotel, a giant grape Popsicle of a building at the midpoint of the world's most famous boardwalk. By her right side is a pair of stuffed raccoons; by her left, an airport luggage cart that holds her worldly possessions. Frank Sinatra croons to her from inside a boom box, and she accompanies him from time to time on a kazoo. "I like...
Under AVA rules, growers first petition BATF to declare an appellation; then the bureau conducts public hearings on such matters as the area's grape- growing history and distinguishing topography. When the bureau approves an AVA, it sets the appellation's boundaries. Critics charge that some BATF decisions seem motivated by a political need to please as many winemakers as possible, rather than a concern for quality. Opponents of the Napa Valley's proposed AVAs charge that the new boundaries would exclude some of the best vineyards and that there is no historical justification for referring to any part...
...also shows up in the book's liturgical section. In the new wedding ritual, for example, the father no longer gives away the bride. Another change in worship concerns the Lord's Supper. The abstemious Methodists specified in their 1966 hymnal that only "the pure unfermented juice of the grape shall be used." Teetotalers attending last year's Methodist conference failed to get that clause inscribed into church law, and the new hymnal omits the rule. So congregations may use wine if they wish, but most Methodists still opt for grape juice. Score one for tradition...
Bush thinks such caveats are unnecessary and could still scuttle the program. Republicans are calling the Byrd resolution a "sour-grape amendment" from those Democrats who lost the vote to kill the whole deal. But the Senate vote, 72 to 27, provided a large enough margin to override a veto. Whether the plane ever takes off or not, the Japan-bashing rhetoric remains in full flight...
While the grape panic and apple scare merged in the public consciousness, they were actually quite different: the punctured-grapes incident was an example of Government action in the face of an intentional poisoning; Alar on apples was an instance of Government inaction following a scientific dispute over risk vs. benefit in the case of a particular chemical agent...