Word: wines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hottest, fastest-growing sport in America, generating $2 billion in revenues and drawing gazillions in sponsorship money. In TV ratings, NASCAR racing blows away every major sport but pro football. With California-born Gordon as its poster boy, NASCAR is expanding beyond its Southeastern roots, going after the wine-and-cheese crowd, and even Donald Trump wants to get in on it. He plans to build a speedway near New York City, where there's a word for people who tailgate at high speeds: cabbies...
...various towns. This way the Beards would have as much information as possible to help them decide which part of town would be right for them to move to. For Beard, the ultimate epiphany came when his new employer offered to pay $2,500 to have his 500-bottle wine collection specially packaged, stored and air freighted to Minneapolis. This was always an expense Beard had picked up in past moves. "I couldn't believe it. No employer had ever offered to do this much for me and my family before," says the astonished Beard...
...Sanchez had gathered--in Seattle, of all places, a city the rest of us associate with outdoor physical conditioning of a level somewhere between conscientious and grim--I remembered that a year or so ago, when I'd had the occasion to share a few meals with some American wine distributors who were visiting individual producers in the south of France, I'd noticed that each distributor seemed to be almost precisely the size of a French family of four...
...have a confession to make. When I read poetry, I like to be romanced. I like a poem to take my hand, twirl me around, offer me wine and roses and seduce me into its satin-draped bedroom for the night. I want poetry to move me beyond myself. I want poetry to offer itself up to me body and soul and say "take me, love me and sigh because I am beautiful, sigh because your heart rips apart when I speak...
...ever been to Springfest before, you know that in recent years, it has been a modest collection of food, games, and music. But be prepared this spring for the UC to get a little crazy on Saturday afternoon, making the event bigger and better than ever before. God Street Wine? Forget it, the Violent Femmes are here. Food? More than you could imagine--fried dough, cotton candy, barbecue, and ethnic foods. Games? More ways to act stupid than ever before, including an inflatable slide that is a replica of the sinking Titanic! Still bored? Well, take a look...