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...galleries will make the artists happy. They are plain, well-lit boxes, with floors of unsanded white oak or polished concrete. There's not a remarkable thing about them, which means it will be easier for the unusual artistic conjunctions the Tate has conjured to jump forward. The art, all post-1900, is organized by subject rather than chronology. There will be nudes and still-life, landscape and history paintings. Thus Richard Long's work Red Slate Circle (1988) is exhibited below Monet's Water-Lilies (after 1916). Pieces by two artists, working at different ends of the century with...
...George Saunders' fiction must, for want of a better fortune, call home. The hilariously hapless heroes of the six stories in Pastoralia (Riverhead Books; 188 pages; $22.95) live as adults with their crotchety mothers or religiously obsessed sisters or a menagerie of squabbling relatives. The beleaguered breadwinner in Sea Oak works as a male stripper at Joysticks, a club with an aviation motif, and notes of his lodgings, "At Sea Oak there's no sea and no oak, just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear view of FedEx...
...those supervisors are getting easier to enlist. When Heidi Miller, 46, one of the most powerful women on Wall Street, announced in late February that she would leave her CFO job at Citigroup to become CFO of Priceline.com it sent shock waves through more than a few oak-paneled boardrooms. That the dotcom wanted Miller wasn't so surprising; that Miller was willing to go to the dotcom was. Nobody expects a mass migration, but her move shows that dotcoms seeking top-notch talent have a good chance of getting...
...from the sophisticated terra cotta of Tuscany. The Italians have had 600 years to engineer and fashion Il Magnifico Chianti into what one might call a powerful expression of grace. Wine producers in California and Washington try in vain to emulate Chianti’s complex personality of dusty oak with subtle, sweet hints of cherry and violet. They rarely measure...
...mildly vegetal notes of tobacco are pitted against a soupçon of leather. The dense, complex and velvety tannins emerge with fustian clarity. Its lambent, ruby hue compliments its well-articulated aromas that, in turn, suggest a dusty, earthy scent blended in with a light touch of toasty oak. My favorite of the evening...