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	Volume 17, Number 2 April 2010 Features Columns Departments
Features New Venue for WTHRA The annual West Coast trade show presented by reps moves from Pomona to the Long Beach Convention Center Read More Play Sets – Pretty Much Perfect Thanks to a variety of price points and sizes, a wide range of realistic and fantasy themes, and many choices for boys and girls, play sets fit the bill as the perfect gift Read More Effective Messages, Creatively Delivered Pufferbellies Toy Store’s quirky products, clever employees and in-store created YouTube videos keep customers of all ages coming in for more Read More The 55th Museum Store Expo Displays of unique, high-end and educational products characterize the annual MSA show in Austin this April Read More Retailers Recommend 10 Fabulous Products The New Product Showcase Our advertisers present a sampling of the best new products available in the industry Columns wordplay Stealing Time by Kevin Fahy Read More Trend Spotting What We Saw at the Show by Lisa Orman Endcap Spin Your Stories Into Gold by Cathy Donovan Wagner Departments For Your Business Information Economic recovery status from Financial Fitness, ways to keep frontline employees informed, the state of small business credit, and more Industry News Hobbico acquires Estes, Reeves distributes Tolo, Learning Express holds convention and more Read More fast facts ad info

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by Kevin Fahy

Stealing Time

In a 1937 cartoon for The New Yorker magazine, James Thurber skewered wine lovers and critics in his usual pitch-perfect voice. It showed the host of a dinner party saying to his guests, “It’s a naive domestic burgundy with no breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption.”

One of our magazines actually includes some wine reviews from time to time, and I always hear Thurber whenever I read about a wine that has a “flinty nose,” leading to an “elegant structure” with a “layered, spicy, petulant depth,” plus a “hint of mango” and “pear notes.” Petulant? Really?
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