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LOUIS XIV Tuck this away for Trivial Pursuit: the Sun King's nickname is said to come from a lavish gold costume he once wore--as a ballet dancer. Louis pirouetted in his youth and established the first professional ballet academy in France in the 17th century...
...some Hollywood tout were to have set a morning line on B-list directors of the mid-'40s, he would have put his money on Edgar G. Ulmer, who with such no-budget films as Bluebeard and Detour was spinning gold out of Poverty Row dross. But fate had a couple of twists in store. Ulmer never graduated to A-level movies. Mann did - after making some remarkable killer...
...Either way, you'll have plenty of opportunities to marvel at how three ingredients - malted barley, water and yeast - can come together in endless variations of smoothness and flavor, according to each distillery's microclimate, water source and manufacturing secrets. Here are some of our favorite sources of liquid gold. CAOL ILA: One of eight distilleries on the tiny island of Islay, the 160-year-old Caol Ila, tel: (44-1496) 302 760, has long enjoyed a cult following among whisky aficionados for its medium-bodied, slightly floral malt. Production is handled by a team of 11 under the stewardship...
...small fancy-goods store on New York City's Broadway, and how the company instilled its jewelry with what curator Clare Phillips calls a "subtle patriotism." Nicknamed the "King of Diamonds" by the U.S. press, founder Charles Lewis Tiffany aspired to supply items for every milestone, from gold armlets for newborns to onyx mourning crosses to remember the American Civil War dead. Tiffany's designers often worked with such U.S.-sourced gems as Montana sapphires and Mississippi River pearls, and favored American naturalism over European historicism. As John Loring, design director of Tiffany's since 1979, explains, "Our unofficial motto...
...Nicknamed the "King of Diamonds" by the U.S. press founder Charles Lewis Tiffany aspired to supply items for every milestone, from gold armlets for newborns to onyx mourning crosses to remember the American Civil War dead. Tiffany's designers often worked with such U.S.-sourced gems as Montana sapphires and Mississippi river pearls, and favored American naturalism over European historicism. As John Loring, design director of Tiffany's since 1979, explains, "Our unofficial motto is that Mother Nature is the best designer." From a delicate diamond-and-sapphire dragon-fly hair ornament (circa 1895) to an Art Deco platinum...