Word: jugs
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...magisterial Still Life with Curtain and Flowered Pitcher, circa 1899, the heavy leaf-pattern curtain on the left and the folds of white cloth below it have the same sculptural density as the fruit and the jug, with its exquisitely suggested peony design. But there, on the right, Cezanne has another white cloth, its folds sharper and more geometrical, its surface unfinished, so that you see glimpses of table through it--and the balance is suddenly perfect, despite but actually because of this shift of gear. Then there is the play between mass and instability--how the fruit...
With more than $800 million in sales, Gallo is the king of jug wines. But the company's market share has evaporated from 42% to 35% in the past five years as consumers have switched to fancier though still inexpensive varietals, such as Kendall-Jackson's $12-a-bottle Chardonnay. Now Kendall-Jackson, an industry innovator with $150 million in sales, alleges that Gallo's new Turning Leaf brand illegally copies the label and look of K-J's best seller. Sour grapes, retorts Gallo, whose distribution power has helped the Turning Leaf line make inroads into Kendall-Jackson...
...since been eclipsed by the Interstate and strips of EconoLodges and Burger Kings. For modern cruise-control motorists, the fractured skeleton of the U.S. highway system has been relegated to the realm of the cultural archaeologist, a reminder of how Americans used to travel before the age of the jug handle and the clover leaf...
...supposed to be funny, but sure enough, the boyfriend whom Caroline jilted with a Dear John note when she fled town a quarter-century ago is still single, not too thick around the waist, and still carries the torch. He's also, natch, the prosecuting attorney who intends to jug Caroline's niece--who, it develops, is not really her niece, but ... Tension mounts. So do the old lovers. But the tale's prevailing oddity is that Caroline is not convincingly female. Not that she should cry or lose earrings, but as things are, she is simply a stick-figure...
...ruled out the idea of tapping his billions and trying it again. He remains such a force that virtually every politician of national renown-with the notable exception of Bill Clinton, who nonetheless sent an emissary-braved the August heat in Dallas to lavish tribute on the jug-eared Wizard at his Oz of a political convention...