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Some of the most practical gizmos were the simplest. Cordless was big. In addition to the vacuum cleaner, Maytag, Panasonic and Euro-Pro were all hawking cordless clothes irons. At $25, Select Brand's battery-powered corkscrew was both cheap and useful, taking only seconds to uncork a bottle of Chardonnay in our tests...
...offer the Grape Gatsby, a pedicure in which patrons' feet are treated to a 30-minute exfoliating soak in red wine and a moisturizing rubdown with crushed red grapes. Of course, to replicate this experience in the privacy of their own home, do-it-yourself types can always uncork a bottle and stomp on a few grapes instead. --By Janice M. Horowitz
...Burrell's story - and hell, at least the British variety, hath no fury like a tabloid scorned. What The Butler Knows became the great obsession of Fleet Street last week. Certainly Burrell does know juicy secrets about Diana. And maybe, editors dared to hope, he could be induced to uncork royal-roiling revelations that the Queen - as conspiracy theorists were convinced - had stopped the trial to suppress. The official victor was the Mirror (circ.: 2.1 million). It paid Burrell $450,000 for his story, beating papers that had offered him much more because it agreed not to pressure...
...back a step before ignition. Nevertheless, she was the top-ranked women's long jumper in 1998, and with her package--the speed, the will, the sense of destiny--there is, in the back of her mind and everyone else's, the thought that at any moment she could uncork a stratospheric leap...
...back a step before ignition. Nevertheless, she was the top-ranked women's long jumper in 1998, and with her package - the speed, the will, the sense of destiny - there is, in the back of her mind and everyone else's, the thought that at any moment she could uncork a stratospheric leap...