Word: indigo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boats available) there are more bareboat berths filled in a season than hotel rooms. Costing only between $150 and $300 per head per week, food and fuel included, bareboating compares favorably with a hotel vacation. Among the leading charterers are the Moorings (33 boats), Antilles Yachting Services (23), Fleet Indigo (14), Abaco Bahamas Charters (12) and Stevens Yachts (10). The oldest and largest firm is Caribbean Sailing Yachts, Inc., founded in 1967 by a sea-obsessed New Jersey dentist named Dr. John van Ost. C.S.Y. has 94 boats at its three bases -Abaco in the Bahamas, Tortola...
...half-circle of blue mountain peaks that runs south to Grenada 60 miles away. Braced against the wheel, refreshed with iced milk punch (embellished on the label with a crude drawing of a hairy fist), and watching the flying fish skitter like fusiform silver bugs from the indigo waves, you slip into the most delectable and mindless of rhythms. That can be a mistake, even for real captains: one bright afternoon in 1971, the Antilles, a 20,000-ton French cruise liner, rammed a reef between the islands of Mustique and Carriacou at full steam, and its hulk still lies...
...fast life, and early on the Duke developed an ability to compose anywhere-restaurants, buses, hotels, even taxis. He wrote his first big hit, Mood Indigo, in 15 minutes while waiting for his mother to fix dinner. Many of his early works shimmered with exotic "jungle" colors, achieved through the clever use of mutes, slurs and growls, that were intended to romanticize the African roots of jazz. Later works such as Warm Valley and Dusk took on subtle pastels and sophisticated shapes. Ellington's style and reputation eventually transcended jazz, and he even performed with major symphony orchestras...
...bars for the crowd that had gathered in Manhattan's French consulate to see Ellington presented with the French Legion of Honor-the first to go to a jazz musician. The ambassador answered back on the piano with a few bars of Ellington's Mood Indigo...
...heavily taxed in the country of origin, they are usually not a bargain at the airport. Nevertheless, anyone who forgot to get something for Aunt Minnie can airport-shop for Indian applique work in Panama ($8), Welsh tapestry cloth in London ($7), Eskimo carvings in Montreal and local indigo-printed cloth in Nairobi ($10). Also available at some duty-free shops: locally produced canned delicacies...