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...world's leading wine critics is preparing for a hard day's work. On the cluttered wet bar of his home office in rural Parkton, Md., nine stubby, stemless glasses, narrower at the top than at the bottom, are lined up. Behind them stand nine uncorked bottles of California red wine, their labels obscured by foil wraps. The critic rinses the glasses with wine from three of the bottles. Then he pours an inch or so of red liquid from the first bottle into the first glass and holds it up to the light. "Good color," he says, "but that...
Faithfull's voice is eerie, raggedy, shattered. She sounds like Lotte Lenya serenading from a sidecar, but she is completely lacking in either melodrama or self-pity. Songs like Penthouse Serenade and Boulevard of Broken Dreams ("And gigolo and gigolette/ Wake up to find their eyes are wet/ With tears that tell of broken dreams") are the sort of fey selections reliably included on subscription-only albums by chanteuses who play hotel lounges in off- season. Faithfull, however, endows them with real gutter sophistication -- the Boulevard of Broken Dreams never sounded like a mean street before -- and that...
...freshmen are starting to get their feet wet," Donato said. "We're going to be part of this team by the end of the season. By that time, all the lessons will be learned...
Team-mate #3: It smells vaguely like a wet poodle--but no, not exactly...
...Cozza has other things on his mind. The Elis had been practicing on a wet, snowy field in preparation for play on an icy, muddy Yale Bowl field. But the field was dry as a bone yesterday, with 100,000 square feet of new sod on the ground...