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...second message was that anything goes; the ironclad, oppressive dos and don'ts of classic cooking vanished. French chefs reached out to the Orient for ingredients and preparations and broke all the rules. Suddenly, creative minds went to work, often overzealously. "I don't want to be like everyone else," says Bradley Ogden, the 32-year-old chef who performs diligently if unevenly at San Francisco's Campton Place Hotel, proving that individuality itself is not the prize...
...incredible $65. The first $65 tickets were sold to Susan Brunson, 115, and her "baby daughter" Mary McDaniel, 75, of Roosevelt, N.Y., who plan to fly to Miami or Los Angeles to visit relatives. All the largest airlines, including American, United, Delta and Northwest Orient, are offering discounts of up to 75% if passengers make their reservations 30 days in advance...
...paintings by Emil Filla or sculpture by Otto Gutfreund, both Czech Cubist artists, but also for about a dozen Cubist buildings and countless objects of applied art. Now it also hosts a restored Cubist café that first opened in 1912 and closed 12 years later. Grand Café Orient is the joint effort of Czech restaurateur and art collector Rudolf Brinek and the National Gallery in Prague. It reopened in March on the second floor of the House at the Black Madonna, a Cubist building downtown that also contains a gallery of Czech Cubism and a shop selling expensive...
...only for paintings by Emil Filla or sculpture by Otto Gutfreund, both Czech Cubist artists, but also for about a dozen Cubist buildings and countless objects of applied art. Now it also hosts a restored Cubist caf? that first opened in 1912 and closed 12 years later. Grand Caf? Orient is the joint effort of Czech restaurateur and art collector Rudolf Brinek and the National Gallery in Prague. It reopened in March on the second floor of the House at the Black Madonna, a Cubist building downtown that also contains a gallery of Czech Cubism and a shop selling expensive...
...Nebenzahl's title somewhat misleadingly suggests, the parameters of this collection coincide roughly with those of Asia. The "silk road" here distends geographically and semantically to encompass any and all lands east of Western Europe. But the Orient is more than a geographic orientation for the collection?it is an evolving and affecting idea. Nebenzahl's mapmakers?with only two exceptions?are Westerners, and the pictures they drew of unknown lands reveal more about Europe's imagination than Asia's landscape...