Word: mono
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...exceptionally good years, some houses are now producing vintage wines profiling a single year's harvest, or single-vineyard wines made from a particularly outstanding parcel. But not without controversy: at the Champagne Information Bureau's annual tasting in London in March, some winemakers wrote off the single-vintage mono-parcel champagnes as a ploy to market novelties as luxuries...
...Waley in London after learning that Waley's longtime partner, the dancer Beryl de Zoete, was dying. The description of that sad meeting is one of the few truly intimate passages of Keene's book, and reveals the same sensitivity to the perishability of things - what the Japanese call mono no aware - felt everywhere in Genji...
...practice in lameness and restriction: “No I don’t want another drink,” “No don’t touch me like that,” “No I can’t kiss you, I have mono.” From Expos on, Harvard students are drilled in the art of sucking at having fun. “What’s the big deal anyway? It’s a just a little case of mono! Besides, you won’t be going home empty-handed...
...Australia's social project is flourishing. Out on Highway 1, which at times seems more "mono" than "multi," that success is not always apparent; sometimes the bush feels like a decaying museum. Look a little deeper, spend a little time, and the country reveals itself: the hardbitten farmer with a greenie tinge and the Aboriginal painter who likes the patterns and colors in her works (and even more so, the cash from sales of dotty art) defy attempts at categorization. Such layers of identity, and the diversity of the suburbs, schools and shopping malls in the towns and cities...
...your allergies bad enough to risk getting mono, losing your cellphone, or sitting through silent film comedies? It’s your call...