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The current edition of The Weekly Standard includes an amusing review of Basic Instinct 2 in which the improbably named author, Sonny Bunch, packs in as many terms from The Film Snob*s Dictionary as he can, including a nod to I Am Curious (Yellow) by the freshly departed Vilgot Sjoman. This doesn’t mitigate the whole Iraq-war fiasco, Bill Kristol, but give this Bunch kid a raise. April 11, 2006 More Film Snobbery »
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Zero manipulation. Righteous buzz-term increasingly in Snob circulation as the backlash grows against consultant-goosed wines that are less about TERROIR than about the winemaker’s ego and such advanced techniques as MICRO-OXYGENATION. Sonoma County’s Peterson Winery has gone so far as to formally name its inexpensive red table wine Zero Manipulation, the first bottling of which was billed “a good, honest wine produced in the style practiced by the Italian immigrants who originally settled the Dry Creek Valley.” Read more from the Wine Snob's Dictionary » 
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