Word: oompahs
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...rate wine list. The oldest vintage dates back to 1704 (yours for a mere $3,227). More reasonable was a $36 bottle of 1989 Breuer Riesling from the Bischofberg vineyard. As I swirled my glass and dipped crusts of dense rye bread into my Riesling-and-cheese soup, an oompah band pounded in the distance--a perfect German winery experience...
...Austrian village of Thal, near Graz, in 1947, in the struggling years right after World War II. His mother was a homemaker. His father was a policeman and an avid performer of military music, which may help explain why Schwarzenegger sometimes reminds you of a one-man oompah band...
...that workers deserve more. It is this collapse of principle more than anything else that has led to general student satisfaction that Harvard’s own Willy Wonka, University President Lawrence H. Summers, will greet any future self-indulgent cries of “Daddy, I want an oompah-loompah now!” with the swift revocation of the golden ticket to the Harvard candy factory...
...hundred years ago, Americans spent their Sunday afternoons tapping their feet to the boom and oompah of a big brass band. In the late 19th century there were 10,000 around the country. For the most part, The Music Man era is bygone--except at Centre College in Danville, Ky., where nearly two dozen bands and 50,000 enthusiasts from around the U.S. and beyond are expected to converge June 15-17 for the 12th annual Great American Brass Band Festival. Margaret and Fonis Payne have traveled 130 miles from Columbus, Ind., every year since 1991. "We forsake everything else...
...Dada classic Four Saints hangs onto the fringe of the repertoire by virtue of its pigeons-on-the-grass-alas text by Stein and Thomson's proto- minimalist, oompah-pah score. Even so modest a renown is likely to elude Lord Byron, just given a handsome first recording by conductor James Bolle leading the Monadnock Festival Orchestra and a cast of mostly unknowns...