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April is the cruelest month, as French vintners, especially in Bordeaux, have again learned. Instead of spring showers came the worst frost in more than 30 years, killing early buds in the vineyards. First assessments halved production forecasts for the year -- a loss of almost $690 million. Said Hubert Bouteiller of the Interprofessional Council for Wines in Bordeaux: "In one fell swoop, the work of a year's pruning was destroyed...
...that 19th century writers should write a prose that seems so stabilizing in the late 20th. Ralph Waldo Emerson is good to have beside the bed between 3 and 6 in the morning. So is the book of Job. Poetry: Wallace Stevens for his strange visual clarities, Robert Frost for his sly moral clarities, Walt Whitman for his spaciousness and energy. Some early Hemingway. I read the memoirs of Nadezhda Mandelstam (Hope Against Hope; Hope Abandoned), the widow of Osip Mandelstam, a Soviet poet destroyed by Stalin. I look at The Wind in the Willows out of admiration...
...spat started when David Frost interviewed for public television the top allied commander in the gulf. Schwarzkopf said he had recommended that the U.S. keep fighting, since his troops could have "made it a battle of annihilation" that, by inference, would have finished Saddam's regime. To many listeners, it sounded like a man praising his boss's magnanimity, but Bush decided he could not afford the impression that he had "wimped out," as an aide put it. His advisers put out word that the general had raised no objection when Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell phoned Schwarzkopf...
...office to her son Rajiv. Six years after her assassination, she is still idolized. Says Sudhir Kakar, an Indian psychoanalyst: "She is looked upon as the sacrificing mother of the joint family." Born to privilege, Gandhi believed she was born to rule as well. She once quoted Robert Frost to Rajiv: "How hard it is to keep from being king, when it's in you and in the situation...
...holidays arrive, champagne prices are expected to start popping like corks. American consumers, who now pay about $24 for a bottle of nonvintage Moet & Chandon or Taittinger, may have to spend $30 or more this season. A combination of forces is to blame: the weak U.S. dollar, an April frost in France's Champagne region and an effort by vintners to increase profits. During the past decade, French champagne producers pitched their product to the masses and succeeded so well that sales hit a record 250 million bottles last year, up 75% since 1982. Thinking they had priced the bubbly...