Word: wineglass
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...easy enough to recognize a classic Riedel wineglass: pure and elegant lines, soap-bubble delicacy, flawless clarity, perfect balance in the hand. What's not so easy, for the uninitiated, is to identify the dozens of shapes and sizes that have made Riedel glasses the uncontested favorite of winemakers and wine lovers around the world. Riedel's Sommelier collection, for instance, includes 33 different lead-crystal glasses, each one designed for a specific type of wine or grape variety...
...candidates, they were looking elsewhere for comfort. After the Florida Supreme Court threw them a lifeline, Joe and Hadassah Lieberman arrived at the Vice President's mansion Friday night bearing wine, a salt shaker, a wineglass and a cloth that is a family heirloom. Tipper had already set out candles, and the two couples slipped away for a private moment of prayer and reflection, later celebrating the Jewish Sabbath, and savoring rebirth, for however long it lasted...
...problems were not of our making!" Vasily declared suddenly, banging the table so violently that Larissa's wineglass toppled into her dinner. For a moment he sat transfixed as the purple stain spread through her mashed potatoes...
...body I have little to say," he notes; later, faced with a ghastly consequence of his behavior, he responds, "I will not speak of this." The understatement works wonders. This disastrous affair comes trailing some of the cliches of romantic fiction: kinky sex, a wineglass snapped between clenched fingers. But Damage, through its fastidious language, restores these tired old tropes to the realm of flesh and blood...
...started out by creating one of the best films ever made, Citizen Kane, which he starred in, directed and partly wrote before he was 26. Ever since, for nearly half a century, it has been all downhill, all the way down to that obese figure holding up a wineglass in a TV commercial...