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...wineland. The Wine Atlas of California (Viking; $50) by James Halliday is organized according to American Viticultural Areas (AVAS), the U.S. government's muddled system of classifying the nation's wine-growing regions. Halliday, who is Australia's leading wine critic, writes with considerable zip and has a fine eye for the offbeat. Profiling the imaginative "Gunny-Bunny" team from Sonoma County's Gundlach Bundschu winery, for example, he notes that they once donned masks, waved toy guns and hijacked the famed Napa Valley Wine Train, forcing its startled passengers to sample Gundlach Bundschu wines...
...pose of that Hellenistic image of postbacchanalian fatigue, the Barberini Faun. And so on. Freud doesn't quote ostentatiously, but he is an artist with a full memory -- as any serious painter must be. There is no level on which he could be accused of having an "innocent eye...
...question of value is ultimately in the eye of the beholder. "The conventional wisdom on the street is that Paramount is way overpriced," says J. Kendrick Noble Jr., who runs his own media consulting firm. "But here you have enormous egos who think they can work wonders with this company; so anything goes." Sometimes the egos get it right: Wall Street hooted at Ted Turner for paying $1.2 billion for the MGM film library in 1986, but today that price is considered a bargain...
MIDDLE EAST: An Eye for an Eye...
...from where their bodies lay, bloodstains marked the spot where 48 hours earlier a group of Lapid's fellow settlers had stopped a car for no reason and shot into the passenger seat, killing Talal al-Bakri, a Palestinian vegetable seller and himself the father of 13 children. The eye-for-an-eye vengeance is making a mockery of what is supposed to be a new era of peaceful coexistence...