Word: plum
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Film lovers will luxuriate in the extraordinary imagery: a sword point that slo-mo slices through drops of water; soldiers squatting in a circle, caked in clay; lovers curled into each other, sleeping under red silk; a sword fight in a grove of golden leaves that turn red, plum, magenta and fall like fat confetti. In the film's design, color creates context. Each story Nameless tells is draped in a different hue: gray, red, blue, white, green. (In the fifth episode, a lake shimmers like lime Jell-O.) At the end, reality forces a new color on Nameless: black...
...SETUP In case you haven't met before--this is the 10th book in the series--Stephanie Plum, based in Trenton, N.J., is a bounty hunter with a great sense of humor that balances out her bad attitude and worse luck. This time around, Stephanie--through no fault of her own--is the sole witness to a robbery, which makes her a target for the gang of bad guys who perpetrated it. At least it gives her an excuse to turn to her ridiculously good-looking fellow bounty hunter Ranger for help...
...only moments before takeoff when Tony Fernandes, chief executive officer of high-flying budget airline AirAsia, rushes onto a plane destined for the Malaysian resort town of Kota Kinabalu. But there's no plum seat waiting for him. Even top managers at no-frills airlines don't get any frills. Fernandes treks through the crowded plane searching for an empty chair, ending up in one of the last rows. When flight attendants appear with a cart of sodas and instant noodles for sale, he plunks down 80? for a can of Milo chocolate drink. Fernandes then spends much...
...bustling with energy from lectures on food-and-wine pairings and interactive exhibits on world wines from Hungarian sweet Tokay to Beaujolais and beyond. And you'll learn all sorts of fun facts--for example, that there are more than 400 wineries in Britain and that China, known for plum and rice wines, is now producing grape-based ones. And, of course, you'll have a chance to sample some of them. The local Wickham Winery's white from Schonburger and Wurzer grapes was simple but pleasantly fruity. The Chinese Hudong winery made a very credible Riesling. These obscure varietals...
...winery in Cerasuolo di Vittoria, southeast of Palermo, which is made from a mixture of the island's main grape Nera d'Avola and the strawberry-like Frappato. The seven-year-old wine ($18 a bottle) was bright, like a tart red cherry, and grounded with sunbaked plum flavors. Some of these older red wines develop delicious flavors like bittersweet chocolate and smoky...