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...Antique Perhaps pinching ideas from grandma's parlor, or else the movie Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Dutch master Marcel Wanders delivers a witty take on chintz. His New Antique collection for Capellini is cool yet cozy - some combination. "We can no longer fall in total awe at a tube being bent," he declares, explaining his elegantly playful antimodernism. www.capcon.it...
...cadre, including Japanese apprentices eager to learn his secrets. Ernesto started to hone his skills when he was 12. Of course he needs help turning out 2,000 pizzas a day, but I shamelessly wait by the furnace to scoop up the magic one made and baked by the master himself. It takes only 30 seconds to bake to blistered perfection in the woodburning oven, and he expertly spins and lifts the pizza with the long wooden paddle. He has the alchemist's touch that turns mere dough and a minimal amount of the simplest toppings into a cavalcade...
...grown in the areas around the town. Despite coming from vineyards in an even more exclusive area, Louis XIII is still the blend of 1,200 individual eaux-de-vie. Like the medieval cathedral builders who didn't live to see the fruits of their labors, many of the master tasters who filled these first tierçons did not live to sample their final product. "It's quite moving to work on something that is part of a national patrimony," says Rémy Martin cellarmaster Vincent Géré. Named in homage to the 17th century French...
While Bok could not be reached for e-mail comment yesterday afternoon, Pfoho House master and Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography James J. McCarthy confirmed that Bok sent an e-mail to other house masters through the office of the Dean of the College asking them to pass information about registering to donate marrow to students in their houses...
...melodrama, the next a comedy, the third a parable. But beyond the variety of stories was a striking visual consistency: the tone was bold, dark and mature - a grownup vision, compared to the adolescent world-view of the standard superhero strip. To quote Feiffer: "Will Eisner was an early master of the German expressionist approach in comic books - the Fritz Lang school. ?Muss 'Em Up' was full of dark shadows, creepy angle shots, graphic close-ups of violence and terror. Eisner's world seemed more real than the world of other comic book men because it looked that much more...