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...praise many premium wines that cost less than $5 a bottle. Today there is a profusion of good vintages in this price range. (All wine prices vary from city to city, week to week.) Some Beaujolais bottlings have been reduced by $2, to $4.99. A 1982 Domaine de Cheval Blanc, a pleasant white Bordeaux, costs under $4. La Vieille Ferme '81, a satisfying red or white from the Rhone Valley, is now $3.49. Burka's store in Washington offers a 1981 Verdillac Bordeaux Superior for $3.49 a bottle, and a free wine rack goes with each case...
...project for a university hall, Schwitters' Merzbau, Kandinsky's music room, and so on. Nevelson's palace is of their company. Yet its motives are not didactic; they are closer to folk art, to the "ideal palace" made from junk by the French postman Cheval from 1879 to 1912, or the Watts Towers built by Simon Rodia in Los Angeles. Collection, repetition, unification: these are the elements of Nevelson's poetic but wholly sculptural sensibility, and this time they have produced a masterpiece...
...Cheval Evanoui descends from a dynasty of successful novels and plays that was founded twelve years ago with Bonjour Tristesse, that sad, wispy novel about a girl's incestuously inspired destruction of her father's mistress. By now the author is so celebrated that Cheval's opening night drew the French Rothschild family, as well as large segments of lesser society folk right down to the cafe variety. The critics went away ecstatic. Wrote Jean Dutourd in France-Soir: "This play is charming, brilliant, tender, intelligent and of a special sort of comic turn of mind...
...plot a 19th century French bedroom farce, in setting a Scottish castle, Cheval projects the true tone of Sagan's languorous existentialism-a tone that has been characterized as boredom raised to the level of a passion. What's more, it projects her wit to a new and unexpected height. Amid a tangle of French fortune hunters trying to undo the clothing and the purse strings of a noble Scottish family, Sagan finds room to run Wilde. "If I married you," a girl tells her libertine fiancé, "how long would I have to wait before betraying...
Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was a wilderness of apple trees, fountains, and rearing white chicken-wire horses meant to conjure up the Normandy resort "Deauville, Ville du Cheval." It was time for the biggest party of October in New York, the April in Paris Ball. The 1,400 jewel-hung society folks from all over the U.S. and nearly 100 from Paris jammed into the Waldorf's Grand Ballroom and adjoining suites for a nine-hour blast for four French and American charities. "A gay and brilliant assemblage," said the society reporters next morning. It was indeed...