How important is their relationship, as she clambers up (and occasionally slides down) the greasy pole?
(And this production has the aesthetic courage to give us what most portrayals of life in the "Mad Men" era have shrunk from or at least toned down: the greasy, pomaded hair that businessmen of the time wore).
As with every climb up and every slip down the greasy price pole, analysts are scrambling around to figure out whether the change will endure.
Driscoll's hopes that its breeders can use this information to create new cultivars, producing strawberries as you would a track, dialling down the greasy peach and laying in some cinnamon and must, over a bass line of drought tolerance.
FROM time to time in the last two years, construction work has opened up the tracks and platforms of the 1904 subway stop at 72nd Street and Broadway to glorious floods of sunlight, washing down on the greasy and dingy station platforms like warm water and soap.
We placed the fruit, cut sides down, on the greasiest part of the grill for about 5 to 10 minutes, until the halves visibly softened at the edges and began to hiss.
These are people who'll wolf down the greasiest burgers or the finest caviar with a smile on their face, content in the knowledge that in several hours time they'll find themselves astride a porcelain throne, faces puce and perspiring.
It was thumbs down, though, on the greasy, overcooked breaded fried prawns, the tough spareribs and the sliced roast pork covered with a congealed cornstarch-thickened honey sauce.
"Down on the greasy floor," he stated in his BBC letter that night, "was a huddle of clothes, and staring out of it the face of Bobby Kennedy, like the stone face of a child, lying on a cathedral tomb".
As for the punishments that myth claims await us in the underworld, these, Lucretius argues, are rooted in everyday human frailty: Sisyphus pushing his rock up a hill only for it to roll back down again, for example, is the perfect image of someone keen for power, who pushes and pushes to reach the top, only to roll straight back down (compare the greasy pole).
In a vintage that has produced so many great Zinfandel values, none is better than this open, outgoing wine, which is just the thing to wash down all the greasy, savory flavors of a summertime barbecue.
