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...discovered why the artists of the Hamptons, the Russians and the Poles prefer to drink their vodka "neat." I recently tried to concoct a truly Russian mixed drink-vodka and beet borscht, blended with a dab of sour cream and topped off with a miniature boiled potato. My frothy, fuchsia discovery, dubbed "The Volga Boatman," was a pretty drink. But one sip told me it was aptly named. It tasted like river silt...
...Heaps of kudos on the Canada cover story [Sept. 30]: informative, illuminating and timely. I hope some conservationists in the U.S. read between the lines and instigate some cooperative move with kin dred interest in Canada. Booms are good, but at least a dab or two of that grand hunk of real estate needs protection...
...result is a range of materials-silver lamé, brocades and sequins-that never used to be in the swim. Such suits usually come with matching culottes or jackets that can be donned in a jiffy. From pool to poolside cocktails is a quick dab with a towel and a snap of a waistband...
...after three years in France. He settled in New York, rendering its parks and pavements with a stubborn gentility that admitted only such locales as Central Park and Fifth Avenue as proper subjects for oils. He excoriated the Ashcan School as "contemptuaries." He accused the public of admiring "every dab of paint that comes out of dressmaking Paris." He called critics "dolts, asses, dullards who rave about impressionism and realism without knowing what Prussian blue is." And dealers were plain "racketeers." Hassam was so single-mindedly American that Fellow Painter Frederic Remington dubbed him "Muley...
...gold lamé topped by an ermine poncho. Sauciest fillip was a see-through chiffon muumuu worn over a flesh-colored skintight jump suit. And Pierre Cardin exposed his pound of flesh through circular cutouts scattered at strategic points on his dresses -here at the collarbone, there smack dab over the navel. He also wolfishly evoked Little Red Riding Hood, with dozens of furry capped capes...