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...seizing on consumer trends--whether they were jug wines in the '70s, Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers in the '80s or development of new premium wines like Gallo of Sonoma ($10 to $65 a bottle) in the '90s. Since 1996, Gallo has quietly launched foreign ventures, most notably Black Swan, produced with Australia's Brian McGuigan winery. The brand sold 1.2 million cases last year, second in Aussie wines only to Casella Wines' Yellow Tail...
...football and basketball, say, Gale Sayers' and Elgin Baylor's full splendor may be inferred from a single move. But a rooftop homer might have sprung from anyone who ever hit a home run, or from Henry Aaron, who hit 755; and while making one swan dive in the outfield, even Tommie Agee or Ron Swoboda of the Mets is the equivalent of the Giants' Willie Mays. Baseball players plainly cannot be known at a glance. "Every player, good or bad, at one time or other has played like a Hall of Famer and a Hall of Shamer." This...
...Story of Family, Friends, and Fenway," and underlying the narrative are a few themes: generational traditions, fathers and mothers and sons and daughters, and this idea that the Red Sox are not, in essence, a baseball team but are, rather, New England-like beans, cod, the Swan Boats, a martini at the Ritz, finnan haddie at LockeOber's, the sunrise from Cadillac Mountain, the day's last run at Mad River Glen, a jog around Block Island. And now I was wondering, even as the book hit the stores, whether this last premise was being rendered wholly false...
...aliens is one of the high points of Cocoon, the sci-fi fantasy that has become one of the top summer box-office hits. Offscreen, however, veteran Actor Don Ameche, 77, seems already to have found his own fountain of youth. He reports he performed the movie's swan dives and jackknives in "all but a fraction of a shot." His secret: "a lot of hard work," including a daily five-mile walk and a 20-to-25-minute aerobics workout most mornings. For 35 years he has limited himself to a one-meal-a-day diet. Ameche would rather...
...casual onlooker, upon entering the compound, might have happened upon 215-pound All-Ivy catcher Schuyler O. Mann ’05 atop the back of first baseman W. Rob Wheeler ’05. Team West suffered when Wheeler stumbled. “He did a complete swan-dive face-plant,” according to Salsgiver, and Mann “tumbled over him” end-over...