Word: grapes
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...part of his morning routine, he ate an English muffin with grape jelly and drank coffee from a Styrofoam cup, then sat down to his drawing table and the long, white Strathmore board with the five-inch-by-five-inch panels in which he drew the daily strip. "He attempted to be ordinary," recalls Clark Gesner, author of the musical "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown." He wanted to be what he thought he had always been - a regular person...
Alberto Fujimori was alone in his hotel room in Tokyo--just the disgraced Peruvian ex-President and a sad-looking plate of grapes and bananas. No handlers, no translators, no security. He clicked on a tape recorder himself. He hungrily peeled a red grape before popping it into his mouth. He cut a relaxed figure for someone who had just lost his country. It was time for the interview. "Where is your photographer?" he asked, sounding disappointed. What Fujimori cared about most was appearing on the cover of TIME. "For the cover maybe it would be better outside...
...preparation for playing Trinity, the Canadian-born Moss trained for months to master martial arts before the film began shooting in Australia. In Chocolat, directed by Lasse Hallstrom, director of last year's Oscar-nominated The Cider House Rules (along with other acclaimed films including What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Moss can be seen as the conservative and strict Caroline Clairmont...
...Great Grape Referendum had a voter turnout of about 50 percent, or 3,166 students, while the Undergraduate Council elections held in 1996 brought only 43 percent...
While it helps to be sitting on some of the best grape-growing land in Tuscany, Frescobaldi's successes--and its ambitious plans--are just as much the product of modern management, led by chief operating officer Giovanni Geddes da Filicaja, 55, the first executive from outside the family. When he joined the firm in 1995, Geddes brought his experience as CEO of the Italian subsidiary of Remy-Cointreau and COO of Antinori wines, one of Frescobaldi's toughest competitors. "Giovanni brought a more professional mentality," says patriarch and chairman Vittorio Frescobaldi, 70, with a laugh. "We needed to change...