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...enhance the flavors that embrace Chianti, softening the tannins, giving a richer, fruitier wine. The routine is considered de rigueur among some Chianti producers. Here, the mildly vegetal notes of tobacco are pitted against a soupçon of leather. The dense, complex and velvety tannins emerge with fustian clarity. Its lambent, ruby hue compliments its well-articulated aromas that, in turn, suggest a dusty, earthy scent blended in with a light touch of toasty oak. My favorite of the evening...
...Ward Sinclair of The Washington Postwrote, "Simpson turns out to be one of the mostrefreshing breezes that occasionally gentles theirway through Congressional pomp and fustian toremind that all is not lost...
...survive at all. Its critics charge it with spending too much on grants to individual artists, but this is untrue--in fact, such grants account for only 4% of its budget. It's more important for the NEA to get rid of all its bogus democratic criteria, the therapeutic fustian of "self-esteem" and "empowerment" through art for this locality or that minority. Leave that to state arts councils (if they still want it, which they shouldn't either); in art there should be no such entitlements. The NEA should be more elitist--rigorously so, in fact--and should hand...
...Gabriel there's nothing to lose but fustian notions of who does what in music. "Interactive rock challenges the old roles of artist and audience," he says. "No longer do you have to supply a linear form with a beginning and an end and a singular journey through it. Instead you create an environment, a kind of forest, where people have the option to follow your path through it, or they can plan their own route -- they can see the world you provided as a collage kit. All the barriers that separated education from entertainment and communication are being eroded...
Lettice Douffet is a sometime actress reduced to working as a rather fanciful tour guide in an ugly and, truth to tell (which she rarely does), unimportant English mansion called Fustian House. Faced with the unpleasant fact that hardly anything consequential or colorful ever happened there, she makes things up. To her, this is putting history to the best possible use, as inspirational contrast to what she sees as the grayness of modern life. Her employers at a preservation trust naturally disagree, and she is tossed...