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Wine consumption in the U.S. is still only a spit in the barrel by European standards: two gallons annually per capita (vs. 27 in Italy), ranging from less than three quarts per adult in West Virginia to five gallons in Washington, D.C. Nonetheless, the amount of wine drunk in the U.S. has doubled in ten years and is increasing at the rate of 5% yearly. That adds up to a huge present and future market for table wines-particularly for the California vintners, who supply 70% of all the wine consumed in this country...
...Being up close can sometimes affect the majesty of the performance. For example when, in a pause, you see the heroine turn around, face upstage, and spit. Somehow it destroys the romantic image, and it happens not infrequently. Also, a lot of times onstage the chorus chats. The Met's acoustics are incredible: you can sneeze or speak really loudly upstage, and nobody in the audience will hear it. Nevertheless, the director is not so fond of that...
Young began his eccentric campaign last summer with the release of a concert film and a new album, both titled Rust Never Sleeps. The record illustrated his two-headed ability to craft folkie ballads and to spit sizzling rockers while avoiding accusations of hypocrisy. Young is serious about both styles, and his integrity defies critics who claim that he has never committed himself to one type of music. The final installment of Rust is the soundtrack of the movie, Live Rust, a double-album set which stands on its own as a summary of Young's 16-year career...
...need of spit and brimstone in his long and varied career as iconoclast, professor, literary critic, and leftist. Back in 1934 he and Philip Rahv--a young Russian-Jewish emigre--launched Partisan Review. This leftist "little" magazine was to become the clarion voice for dissident American intellectuals and artists during the next two decades...
Both crews rowed graceful, if unspectacular, races, moved swiftly to the numerous Heinekens, and waited for the computer to spit out the result. Verdict: The Rude and Smooth finished 32nd; Alte Achter 33rd, 2.9 seconds behind. Youth, relatively speaking of course, had triumphed...