Word: vermilions
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...picking up a lot of the cassis?the black currant fruit," says Steve Skinner, the assistant winemaker at Trinity Hill Vineyard in Hawke's Bay, as he swirls a sample of almost vermilion liquid around his glass. "But I'm seeing the savory side of the bottle aging?a certain leathery character and a lot of lanolin." Travel in New Zealand and you had better learn to speak the language of vintners and wine tasters. You might find yourself chatting about Cabernet with a cabbie, and Pinot Noir with a parking attendant...
...need a coach now, too, since Willingham left for South Bend. This might be the best fit of all for Murphy. Seeing as Stanford’s nickname is the Cardinal (the color, not the bird), Murphy’s experience guiding a team named for a shade of vermilion would likely also weigh heavily in the minds of the selection committee...
...public. Supported in part by aid from the U.S. and Swedish governments, Mishra juggles his roles as priest and activist. As he takes a call from Washington inviting him to a waste-management conference, he silently raises his hand to bless an old man with a huge vermilion mark on his forehead who is bending over Mishra's feet. "I don't know how all this happened. No one in my family had even been to school," Mishra says. "I think it is because Mother Ganges knew she needed my help...
Like China, Zhu lost two decades of his life as Mao pushed an already poor country into famine and industrial ruin in the 1960s and '70s. He is from a different shade of red than the standard communist cadre. The Chinese character for his name means vermilion, the color used on the gates of wealthy people's mansions in old China. Descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming-dynasty Emperor (1368-98), the Zhu clan was a big landowner around Changsha in Hunan province, where Zhu was born in 1928. "The Zhu family was very rich," says Zhu Yunzhong...
Reasons to Move There: Brick-paved streets, canoes in the Vermilion River beneath a swinging wooden bridge that leads to the town park. And gooseberry pie at the Appletree Restaurant...