Word: haute
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last years Merrick became the mini-pet of the haut monde. The Princess of Wales visited him, the Prince of Wales sent him venison, and an actress, Mrs. Kendal, was solicitously tender. At the point in the play where she reaches out to take Merrick's hideously gnarled right hand in hers, the emotionally charged impact equals the scene in The Miracle Worker where Helen Keller first comprehends the sign for water. Longing to sleep "like other people," Merrick, who could only achieve rest by lowering his huge head on his knees, lay down one night in 1890, broke...
...folk singer, a breed that passed from wide favor and fancy more than a decade ago. Yet Bok fans are ranged wide, across the country, over into Europe, and down into the classroom. One elementary school in Labrador energetically studied Bok's The Hills of Isle au Haut but somehow twisted the title into The Hills of Ivanhoe. He has never earned more than $1,800 for a concert, and his record sales (15,000 tops) would get him bounced off any major label. Still, he is the star of tiny Folk-Legacy Records (studios in a converted barn...
Such rarely bandied words as "remarquable," "fantastique," and "extraordinaire" are being breathed by growers and wine masters, traditionally a cautious clan. "We have rarely seen such quality in the grape," attests Jean Delmas, estate manager of Cháteau Haut-Brion, the fabled premier grand cru classe Bordeaux cháteau. As the picking drew to a close last week, some growers sounded like Verlaine of the vineyard. Said Aubert Gaudin de Villaine, co-owner of Burgundy's great Romanée-Conti vineyard: "These grapes could have been made in a sculptor's studio-small, round, even...
When the ballots were cast, the top-soaring red was Stag's Leap Wine Cellars' '72 from the Napa Valley, followed by Mouton-Rothschild '70, Haut-Brion '70 and Montrose '70. The four winning whites were, in order, Chateau Mont-helena '73 from Napa, French Meursault-Charmes '73 and two other Californians, Chalone '74 from Monterey County and Napa's Spring Mountain '73. The U.S. winners are little known to wine lovers, since they are in short supply even in California and rather expensive ($6 plus). Jim Barrett, Monthelena...
...flowed at a rate that rivaled that of the Olympus engines' fuel consumption. At mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h.) which we passed without a tremor, came the food-smoked salmon, rib of veal, château potatoes, cheese, apricot pastry, Chablis Vaudésir and Château Haut-Brion, plus liqueurs. Many passengers paid the smoothness of supersonic flight the ultimate compliment; they fell asleep. We touched down in Dakar, West Africa, right on schedule, refueled and were on our way to Rio in an hour. A minor engine problem held our speed below mach...