Word: workman
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...idea clicked last December in Rio de Janeiro, where Supermodel Jerry Hall was posing for Photographer Annie Leibovitz for the March '85 cover of Vanity Fair. The session went so well that the pair decided to do a 1986 pinup calendar. There was no problem finding exposure: Workman Publishing took the calendar, Playboy a set of the photographs. Hall's seasonal poses run from a vision in lace (January) to Aunt Sam (July) to a Christmas gift (December). Observes Leibovitz of Mick Jagger's lady: "Jerry loves the camera." And vice versa...
...finish the game with a little distance, if we could,” Sullivan said of the late Norman dunk attempt. “I don’t think it had anything to do anything that Yale did. We were just really geared to finish the game in workman-like fashion...
...airport by Spanish winemakers who, unaccustomed to the idea of a woman wine writer, overlooked her in the terminal. But dogged perseverance finally got her admitted to the inner circle of wine critics, and in 1991 she signed a contract to write a book on wine for Workman Publishing Co. in New York City. MacNeil ended up spending 10 years on the project, producing the 900-plus-page Wine Bible in 2001. The book, which covers in an unpretentious style all aspects of making, drinking and enjoying wine, has sold 246,000 copies and is in its 10th printing. MacNeil...
...love travel and have a fetish for lists, then rejoice: Patricia Schultz's new book, 1,000 Places to See Before You Die (Workman Publishing; 800 pages), should keep you happily occupied for the rest of your natural term. It's a work as provocative as it is encyclopedic. Not everyone is going to agree with Schultz's choices, and the author is aware of the quagmire she's got herself into. "Why give the Pork Pit in Montego Bay the same weight as Paris' legendary Taillevent?" she asks, referring to two well-known but very different restaurants. The answer...
Having turned in a workman-like win over a Top 15 team, a non-conference opponent and a cross-town rival all at once, late November could be the beginning of a very interesting stretch of Harvard hockey...