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...Cokes, Pepsis and others make marketing inroads into the champ's lead, as some analysts believe they will, you have to wonder if they will ever attain the mystical status Gatorade reached in 1987, when football's New York Giants began dousing coach Bill Parcells with a conspicuously labeled vat of the stuff near the end of every winning game. Since then, teams at many levels have adopted that ceremony, helping Gatorade make an ever bigger splash in the market...
...There were quite a few people who were uncomfortable with the stories about Clinton, but the flat tax and the VAT turned a lot of people off on Brown," he added...
...through engravings, above all, that Mantegna was able to reimagine classical motifs in all their grief, exaltation and lust. The satyr clutching the drunken boy in his Bacchanal with a Wine Vat has to be the sharpest and least prudish image of homosexual desire in all Renaissance art. The mountainous folds of skirt in Mantegna's engraving of the Virgin and Child, arguably the most beautiful print made by any Italian during the Renaissance and only to be rivaled by Durer, support a protective gesture of inexpressible tenderness, in which the Madonna seems to be drawing her son back into...
...Boise affiliate of H.J. Heinz Co., they peela lotta potatoes -- about 6,000 tons a day. Traditional recipe: steam 900 lbs. of potatoes in a vast vat; release the steam so the skins drop off. Preparation time: two minutes. Drawbacks: you lose nearly a tenth of a tater with the skin and generate a dun-colored, viscous by-product, used as cattle feed...
...considered unmarriageable or pariahs by a conservative Islamic society. According to a government-authorized medical study, 350 Kuwaitis died during their imprisonment, usually after gruesome torture. Limbs were broken, eyes gouged out, ears and genitals cut off. In one case, a man was half immersed in a vat of acid. Men were killed by bullets, women by hanging, and victims of both sexes were executed...