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Many Americans are discovering the virtues-pungent aroma and mouth-filling fruitiness-of the Loire Valley's reds, such as Chinon and Bour-gueil, which...
...washing machines and take off for the chow hall. There are separate menus for the two prevailing cultures on board. The Cajuns get their rice, beans and gumbo and the Mississippians their ham, greens and potatoes. Then they talk sex, watch television or play a Cajun card game called Bourée (pronounced boo-ray). To a visitor, there seems a relaxed camaraderie aboard, as though the men had achieved a kind of brotherhood through suffering. Still, there is no desire by the men to see their experience repeated, particularly in their families...
Oblique Allusions. Independent and stubborn, Brigitte was soon steering her own course, combining something of the totemic power of Moore with the welding techniques of Pevsner. In 1959 she received Paris' coveted Prix Bour-delle from a jury that included Giacometti, Arp, Lipchitz and Moore, went on to represent Germany at the 1962 Venice Biennale...
...entire tragicomedy of errors, from their belated discovery that Irene had been converted to Roman Catholicism and become engaged, through the Queen's radio announcement that the engagement had been broken, which then had to be retracted, down to the arrival in The Netherlands of the flamboyant Bour-bon-Parmas with their preposterous suggestion that the Roman Catholic wedding take place in a Dutch Protestant church. All this made the Dutch, who have a cozy, middle-class relationship with their monarchy, feel a sense of family embarrassment at the dissension in the House of Orange...
...middle of October brings antumn leaves, football games, the first bour exams and, almost as inevitably, another world championship for the New York Yankees and the American League. This year's version found the Bronx Bombers picking up their 20th series victory since 1927 in a seven-game marathon with the San Francisco Giants...