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...tulip glass of Louis XIII and prepare myself for this rare tasting opportunity. "Don't merely take a first sip," Géré tells me. "Instead, try to crush that first drop on your teeth." So how does century-old cognac taste? Well, like the 20th century itself: complex. Even the occasional cognac drinker like me can immediately sense a unique palate with each sip. First I tasted the oak outright, followed by a very distinct apple and hint of vanilla. Moments later, a flowery aroma, then a spicy sweetness. Rémy Martin has gone even further upscale...
...Palau is certainly a worthy effort and just part of Valencia's quest, one that's even bolder than Bilbao's famous gamble. The opera house is the final piece of the immensely popular City of Arts and Sciences, a complex of beautifully integrated white buildings, most designed by Calatrava, that includes a planetarium with IMAX cinema and laser dome, a science museum, a botanical garden and Europe's biggest marine park. "An art museum draws a fairly narrow audience, while the City of Arts and Sciences appeals to a much wider range of people," says Julio...
...Israeli Arab writer Attalah Mansour describes the Israelis' predicament with an Oriental image: ''Instead of stepping on the snake that threatened them, they swallowed it. Now they have to live with it, or die from it.'' Once when the columnist Stewart Alsop wrote that the Israelis have a ''Masada complex,'' a besieged mentality, preferring collective suicide to surrender, Prime Minister Golda Meir replied, ''It is true. We do have a Masada complex. We have a pogrom complex. We have a Hitler complex.'' Yehoshafat Harkabi, once the chief of Israeli military intelligence and now a professor of international relations...
...paved the way over several generations, but Israel from the moment of its beginning in 1948 was an act of collective will and courage, a valor that arose in part out of desperation. A flourishing culture. Universities, clinics, industries, social welfare, housing, an agricultural system watered by a complex national irrigation grid, the world's largest diamond-polishing industry, defense industries. A going concern. One of the best armies in the world. Miraculous. But also the result of an infusion of about $43 billion in American Government aid over the years, and millions more contributed privately by Jews in America...
...There's a complex mix of motives in this acquisition of artifacts from the unheralded or underground past. It could represent the reclaiming of pre-adolescent fetishes ... or savvy financial speculation ... or an appreciation of vigorous popular artistry? To form these as questions: Can adults escape the fondest memories of childhood? Can a price be put on them? Can trash art be transformed to high...