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...benefited more than the French from the new thirst for chic sparklers. Genuine champagne comes only from grapes grown on 70,000 acres of chalky soil near Reims, France. It was there that Dom Pérignon, a 17th century Benedictine monk, perfected the slow, expensive méthode champenoise that creates the carbon-dioxide fizz by fermenting wine a second time inside the bottle. Until a few years ago, U.S. consumers regarded France's pricey bubbly as an indulgence reserved for weddings, New Year's Eve parties and World Series locker rooms. But the current strength...
...maybe some will start shooting around a week or two before, but not Cousy. Meanwhile, saying "I feel I still have another good year to give," Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 37, has changed his mind about quitting after this season, and for $2 million has agreed to play a 17th year. And Franco Harris, 34, will take on Jim Brown, 48, in the 40-yd. dash at an Atlantic City casino during Super Bowl week. Gods may not answer letters, but their agents do. -By Tom Callahan
...takes the form of patient resistance. The history of our people, even as far back as the Thirty Years' War in the 17th century, is that we have to deal with greater powers on our borders, for instance, Germany and Russia. But we also live in the center of Europe. The concept of politicians like Masaryk was to use Czechoslovakia to build a bridge between East and West, across the heart of Europe...
...result: a profitable European market was opened, production increased to meet demand, and, inevitably, standards and quality declined. Erwin Gans-Ruedin's Indian Carpets (Rizzoli; 318 pages; $85) is a particolored object lesson in how art is overtaken by commerce. Carpets and rugs from the 16th and 17th centuries demonstrate an imagination all but forgotten in modern examples. An antique Agra is alive with a profusion of delicate figuring; a new Agra is static and merely crowded. Inadvertently or not, Gans-Ruedin's selections give the reader a chance to compare the finest rugs with...
...renditions of Molière. The Pulitzer-prizewinning author of seven volumes of poetry has translated The Misan thrope, Tartuffe, School for Wives and The Learned Ladies. His versions have been produced more than 140 times in British, Canadian and U.S. theaters. Wilbur's fluency in replicating 17th century rhymed couplets suggests he was born to the task. In fact, he had only high school French when he landed in southern France in 1944 with the U.S. 36th Division. Most of the soldiers in his unit were country boys from Texas, and Wilbur was enlisted as the company interpreter...