Word: ruining
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...Experts caution that the Clef du Vin will not magically transform a harsh vin de table into a grand vintage. (You can ruin a good wine by leaving the instrument in the drink too long.) What it can do is help determine which vintages are worth waiting for, and for how long. Wine goes through stages of oxidization, from fermentation and bottling to total oxidization, when it becomes too old to consume. In between, it reaches periods of equilibrium when it is perfect for uncorking. The Clef du Vin helps predict when those periods will fall-and with 95% accuracy...
...example, Schumacher led the race from beginning to end. Three weeks later he did the same in Nurburgring. And after winning at Silverstone in Britain last week, he figures to take another victory lap at the Grand Prix in Hockenheim, Germany, next Sunday. "It certainly does ruin the suspense," says Mario Andretti, the last American driver to win the F1 world championship, back...
...talk about that--not yet. Let's think instead about brutal Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, about yearning Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, about the rough voice and silky menace of The Godfather and the noble and ignoble ruin of Brando's Paul in Last Tango in Paris. Then let's think about how in a minor but still palpable way our lives--especially our imaginative lives--would have been diminished if Brando had not been there to play them. Sometimes in those movies, and in others too, he gave us moments of heartbreaking behavioral reality...
...Knightley was only 3 when she announced that she wanted an agent. Her parents persuaded her to wait a bit. But when their daughter's desire resurfaced a few years later, they reluctantly allowed her to act in television and commercials but not onstage, fearing that evening curtains would ruin her schoolwork. They also refused to give her a lick of formal training. Other than a recent Christmas gift from her father--a book on acting for the stage--her parents have been steadfast in their conviction that she should find...
Kirby’s proposed preregistration plan meets unexpected criticism at a Faculty meeting. Several professors voice concerns that the plan would ruin the great educational benefit of shopping period. Kirby subsequently withdraws his proposal...