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This fall's California grape harvest was a race against the sun. Unseasonable heat of up to 105° threatened to ripen the fruit too quickly and spoil it for winemaking. But as the last bunches of plump red and golden grapes were dumped safely into crushers last week, growers and vintners were in no mood to raise their goblets to Bacchus. Because of a worldwide glut of wine, this year's harvest of nearly 2 million tons of grapes will be far more than needed. "We are in a hell of a bind here," says Earl Rocca...
...heavy rainfall in the western part of the state by the Cascade Mountains, much as Alsace is protected by the Vosges. During the growing season, the Washington vineyards enjoy cool nights and in June, 17 hours or more of not-too-intense sunlight daily, allowing the grapes to ripen with good sugar-acid balance. The fruit tends to be tarter and crisper than California's, with a more intense flavor and aroma and a more pronounced varietal character...
...going nowhere. They have nothing in common but an over whelming love for her. But something in Jill thrills to the troubles Sheik gets himself into and to the threat he poses to her middle-class dreams. So she allows this Romeo-and-Coquette dalliance to ripen into an attachment that is foolish, masochistic, elemental...
...church; he tries to make peace with his rebellious daughter (Ellen Barkin); he visits Dixie's Tara-size mansion to say an elegy over a dead marriage; he tosses a football around with Sonny. Attuned to the movie's rhythm, the viewer will see wounds heal, friendships ripen, a bond sealed between the film makers and the audience...
...Secretaries agree on certain broad policy goals, there has been a long series of disagreements between them. With its ad hoc case-by-case approach to problems overseas, and without a strong hand at the controls of the National Security Council, the White House has allowed the competition to ripen. Indeed, Weinberger has been "committing foreign policy," as he puts it, more vigorously than any Secretary of Defense since Robert McNamara two decades ago. The dissonance between Weinberger's generally hawkish views and the usually more moderate approach of Haig has sown doubt about the U.S. approach toward countries...