Word: jug
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...biggest new wine out of France last year was born in the mind of an American: Joe Gallo. That's Gallo, as in E&J Gallo Winery, America's biggest wine producer and a company many people still associate with California jug wines like Carlo Rossi. Three years ago, Joe, co-president of the company and son of legendary co-founder Ernest, returned from a trip to Europe and asked his consumer-research team to explain his French paradox: that most Americans still rated French wines as the best in the world but the French were rapidly losing market share...
...kind of illustrated autobiography. Crumb provides commentary on his development as a person and an artist in passages interspersed with copious examples of his art and family photos. (A full multi-media package, it also comes with a CD of Crumb's recorded sessions with various amateur string and jug bands.) In a conversational style that frequently lapses into hilarious tirades against consumer culture, the media and any of a half dozen other peeves, Crumb reminisces about growing up as a child of 1950s suburbia through his later years as a museum-worthy "arteest" living in France. Always entertaining...
...Mona, 1970: The Jazz Singer of fuck films, Mona was pretty sure of itself for a lonely pioneer. It had a busy soundtrack: clavichord, old pop tunes, harmonica and jug band music, an Indian raga and a long audio extract from The Taming of the Shrew. It revealed Mona as a kind of fellatio virtuoso: when a guy she has solicited for a back-alley blow job tries to pay her, she replies daintily, "I didn't do it for money. I have a taste for these things." It boasts a piquant blend of tease and sympathy...
...Bactria, in modern-day Afghanistan. And the figures on its surface seem to be characters in the Trojan War. Whoever cast the ewer seems to have been more concerned with style than mythological substance. But General Li probably didn't care. The foreignness of the design alone gave the jug its allure...
...Sherman Street resident reported that between 7 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., an unknown person or persons entered his apartment by breaking a window. Once inside, the suspect(s) went through his bedroom and stole jewelry and a jug containing...