White: 2006 Fiano di Avellino, Terredora, Campania (£14.45, 13%, Jeroboams, 0207 730 8108) If Fiano can lay claims to greatness, as opposed to being the source of decent commercial wines, it will be with examples like this taut, perfumed, almost Sauvignon Blanc-like number from Campania.
I guess everyone yearns to be the kind of writer that they aren't and I would like to write taut books, the ones where the blurb says: 'This one will nail you to your chair'".
He got very agitated; his muscles were vibrating like something taut, ready to snap".
The chair feels like a taut hammock and is made to order for $700, from Outside, 442 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles; (323) 93231254.
I reached out to grasp what seemed like a taut rope line, only to feel it sag beneath my trembling fist.
Because it is so stiff, it vibrates at high frequencies like a taut guitar string -- and heat is no more than the vibrations of atoms.
The aperitif and main course whites range from the rewarding off-dry, like the delicious '00 riesling from Paumanok Vineyards in Aquebogue, to the sternly dry, like the taut '99 pinot blanc from Lieb Family Cellars in Mattituck.
Like a taut knot, it beat within my temple, its dampness trembled upon my lashes, its sweet chill fanned through my hair, and it poured heavenly warmth over my heart.
Anyone willing to trudge through 400-plus dense pages about abstruse concepts like "the taut, almost erotic relationship between product design and human physicality" might also hope to learn something about Roxy Music's career, if not the group's rock-star lives.
