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...further complicate matters, Pathan tribesmen would like to create a new state within Pakistan to be called Pushtunistan (Pathan Nation). They have been getting help and support from Pathans in neighboring Afghanistan. Adding to the ferment and intrigue, both the P.P.P. and the N.A.P. have organized large paramilitary groups to protect what each considers to be its own turf...
...nemesis is reality itself, finally grown bizarre enough to challenge his imagination. So he strains to outdo the exotica of everyday reality, and in the straining finds himself an alien in the modern world. He doesn't know quite what to make of industrial advance, youth culture, and political ferment. He stares at those phenomena with confusion and regret and would willingly retreat to the more secure confusion of more hallucination...
...chief beneficiary of this ferment is the U.S. wine industry, the world's sixth-largest producer (behind Italy, France, the Soviet Union, Spain and Argentina). Long considered to be pale imitations of their European cousins, American wines are rapidly gaining in quality and respect. Imports continue to rise, but more than 88% of all wine sold in the U.S. is homegrown. This year 43 new wineries have been opened. Thriving vineyards have grown up in some unlikely places: Maryland, Washington, Oregon, Illinois and Georgia. New York State produces one of every eleven bottles of wine made...
...wine has to be from the year mentioned. More and more California makers are dating even their mediocre products. Does vintage really matter? If a vine gets too little sun or too much rain one year, the grapes are likely to end up with a low sugar content and ferment into acidic, watery wine. If there is too much sunlight, the grapes can shrivel like raisins and produce overly sweet wine. In Europe, where such meteorological metamorphoses are fairly dramatic from year to year, vintage dating has an indisputable raisin d'être. But in California, where sunlight...
...FORTY YEARS following the turn of the century encompassed tremendous musical ferment that now barely causes a ripple of interest. The lack of attention accorded works once cause for riots is a simple case of changing tastes. New styles have come and gone at a pace befitting the current age with little residue or overlap from one epoch to the next. Exposure of pieces only recently considered "old" tends to emphasize their relationship to our immediate condition rather than subject them to a considered historical judgement...