Word: simonizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jeffry Wert Simon and Schuster...
Although it costs as much as a bottle of Perrier-Jouet brut, many wine lovers will consider the new (third) edition of Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide (Simon & Schuster; $40) an indispensable purchase. The nation's pre-eminent guru of grape, Robert M. Parker Jr., is writer-publisher of a plain-as-plonk (no ads, no pictures) bimonthly newsletter, The Wine Advocate. His trenchant opinions, as well as his still debated ratings of wine on a 100- point scale, are recycled into columns for the Prodigy computer network and Wine Enthusiast and Food & Wine magazines. They also feed...
...Wine Atlas of California and the Pacific Northwest (Simon & Schuster; $45) is also organized by AVAS. Its military-precise maps are much better than those in Halliday's atlas, which are mostly in murky shades of camouflage green. But author Bob Thompson's prose is pedestrian, and his assessments of wineries have as much tang as blush...
...worth? To establish a price range, analysts tot up the cash flow produced by each of the company's lines of businesses and divide the result by Paramount's 118 million outstanding shares. The major holdings include Paramount Pictures (Wayne's World 2, Addams Family Values), the company's Simon & Schuster (now Paramount Publishing) book-publishing arm and Madison Square Garden. Running those numbers, Jessica Reif, an analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., has put the value of Paramount as low as $60 a share. (The stock closed at 81 1/8 last week after the Delaware court ruling...
...with his team playing a two-game set at Minnesota-Duluth this weekend, he has a right to feel a little excited. It's the Crimson's first trip to the Land of 10,000 Lakes since 1989, and the first time during the Tomassoni era--a little of Simon and Garfunkel's "Homeward Bound", if you please...