Over the last seven weeks Mr. Nelson has veered from predicting a likely Obama victory to rating the presidential race as a tossup, and Mr. Romney's improved fortunes have been reflected here and there in the dialogue; one of the siblings, Jane, played by J. Smith-Cameron, now says that a Romney victory would not be a "fluke," for instance.
Some mainstream Republicans have dismissed the Virginia result as a fluke, and in some instances have blamed a Democratic dirty tricks campaign for flooding the primary election with voters aimed at disrupting GOP election chances by backing a more extreme candidate.
Geoff Ryman's brilliant book Was, for instance, catalogues the flukes and graces that turned The Wizard of Oz from a mere bestseller into part of our mental landscape.
The point being this: wine making is no fluke; it is a serious and, in many instances, successful business.
Consider, for instance, Equatorial Guinea and Zimbabwe — two lands in the news where, by flukes of geology and geography, rulers have secured what seem to be charmed lives, tapping windfall seams of wealth to perpetuate their rule.
Flukes of nature can also be to blame sudden drops in water temperature, for instance, paralyze turtles, who can't regulate their body temperature quickly enough.
This historical trend is probably not simply a statistical fluke, and instead reflects the fact that the demographic groups that tend to vote Republican — for instance, older and wealthier voters — tend to be more likely to vote as well.
Silverman also does some clever but clean accessorizing at the raw bar — for instance, the little specks of spring onion and the hint of orange on the puck of fluke tartare.
Which is a fluke, yeah, a fluke.
