Word: sheen
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...Berkeley, Calif., and grower-champagne sections have been appearing on top restaurant wine lists around the country. Paul Grieco, beverage director of New York City's Gramercy Tavern, says, "The public's thirst for uniquely great products allows the smaller estates to flourish. They add luster to the polished sheen the Champagne region already wears...
Vicente Fox Posada's biggest enemy might, perhaps, be his people's high expectations of a new political order in Mexico. But the mammoth odds against his efforts to reform his country's torpid economic and political system give him a Quixotic sheen, which has everyone from the poorest peasants in Oaxaca to the most worldly wise diplomats in Mexico City ready to extend him a generous line of political credit...
...bonus of $20,000 to new teachers, including recent college grads, as well as intensive summer training and accelerated accreditation. Other programs, like the popular Teach for America, a national teachers' corps, make it easier for graduates to enter school systems while also giving the teaching profession an intangible sheen of prestige...
...Kate Mulgrew). But The X-Files isn't the only series of a certain age adding a prominent new face and taking a prominent risk. After losing nice guy Michael J. Fox, who's fighting Parkinson's disease, ABC's city-hall sitcom Spin City added bad boy Charlie Sheen. On NBC's Law & Order, Dianne Wiest takes over from Steven Hill, who was the show's savvy, world-weary district attorney for 10 years. Law & Order, driven more by taut crime tales than characters, has gradually jettisoned its original cast and flourished ("This sounds arrogant," says executive producer Arthur...
Gary David Goldberg, the creator of Spin City (Wednesdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.), lived his own scary story with Fox's loss. To replace Fox, he needed a big-enough star to "legitimately stand on his own" without imitating his well-liked predecessor. He picked a departure, all right--Sheen, lately out of rehab and one of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss's most infamous customers. "I saw it as an opportunity to get back into the fold," says Sheen. It took eight script drafts to introduce deputy mayor Charlie Crawford, a party boy we first see waking...