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...Europe's best-kept ski secret lies in the Bjelasica mountains at Jezerine, about 15 minutes by car outside the town of Kolasin, itself an hour and a half's drive up the stunning Moraca Canyon from the Montenegrin capital of Podgorica. Although the range's highest peak, Crna Glava (Black Head), is only 7,018 ft. (2,139 m), the amount of snowfall and variety of terrain in Jezerine will surprise you. While relatively small compared to many European resorts - there are only five lifts, although a high-speed quad is being built - Jezerine's tree-skiing, powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montenegro: Europe's New Ski Destination | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

...debate afterwards one Comrade Glava, representative of the Youth L e a g u e's newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravada, suggested that young workers who could not "resist the appeal of the bourgeois dance" confine their depravity to their homes. Finally the Moscow Conservatory's Music Professor Konnus pulled a long face and gravely approved Tsfasman's jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Jazz in Moscow | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...that her Russian blood did not endow her with "some talent, mysticism and taste," that the English blood did not "add a sense of humor to her complex composition." Finally she is left pondering what on earth the book is about. Says Mrs. Sheridan: "A strange young woman named Glava rides a carrot-colored horse whose tail sweeps the ground.... She does much climbing of mountains, dresses in white robes, carries a spear, has her hair in two long braids. The horse is a 'grand creature'; so is Glava, and her nurse talks in an Irish dialect." It sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Regal Authoress | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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