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If you’re elfinly adorable and release a counting song as a single, you just know the Muppets will have you in their crosshairs. And so, Leslie Feist brings “1 2 3 4” to NYC’s still rough-hewn Sesame Street district. Not since R.E.M.’s “Furry Happy Monsters” has a hit been so joyously repurposed. Though the Sesame Workshop really missed a great opportunity in 2005 when Beck, then a new dad, came out with the song “Guero” from the album of the same name. A “Qué Onda Elmo?” video would have been perfect. July 25, 2008 More Rock 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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