Word: fining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cole quickly realized, was New York, whose prosperous merchants were eager to purchase paintings for their new mansions and whose intellectual community had already fostered the talents of William Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving. Nature was in fashion. A speaker exhorted the nascent American Academy of Fine Arts in 1825: "The genius of your country points you to its stupendous cataracts and its ranging mountains. There, where nature needs no fictitious charms, place on the canvas the lovely landscape, and adorn our houses with American prospects and American skies." Cole may well have listened to this very...
...world into good guys and bad?or, as Fielding has it, "givers" and "takers." His friends must all be givers?although as soon as they become his friends, they must learn to take as well, since he loves to shower them with thoughtful gifts: a favorite delicacy, a dozen fine Majorcan handkerchiefs embroidered with their signatures, a monogrammed cigarette lighter. For a grown man, he is wildly sentimental; every reunion is a ceremonial occasion, every farewell a moment of mourning. In between, there are Temple's affectionate letters, punctuated, illustrated and signed with drawings of himself feeling stupid...
...keep him from giving Fielding a full hour's top-to-bottom guided tour of the premises. Trailing along behind the hotelier, Fielding kept up a steady and reassuring patter: "Hmm, new paintwork there, very good . . . Oh, I see you've installed 110 volts A.C.?that's fine"?meanwhile running his hand along the tops of doors to see if they had been dusted. Entering one room, he pointed to the bed, asked "Do you mind?" and flopped onto it, carefully keeping his feet raised to avoid getting black shoe polish on the spread. In a bathroom...
Still, the pay is good, and so are the perks. On the road, Fielding, Raff and Bones travel like triplets. They each carry three dark blue mohair suits, tailored with covered buttons and zippered pockets by Brioni of Rome. Their shirts are all of fine white oxford cloth sewn to Fielding's own design (handmade buttonholes, extra-long French cuffs) by a Majorcan shirtmaker. Their ties are regimental-striped and made in Italy. Their topcoats of blue vicuŅa are cut by English House in Copenhagen. Even their techniques are triplicate...
Basque cuisine. Famed New York Gourmet Michael Field pronounces its cream of king crab soup as fine a soup as any he has ever tasted. English-speaking Owner Alfonso delights in introducing tourists to such unpronounceable Basque delicacies as kokotxas, zancarrón, merluza koskera and bacalao...