Word: peake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boston Hills North Andover Chair 290 4 Bousquets Pittsfield Chair, T-bar, 2 Pomalifts 750 5 Brodie Mountain New Ashford 3 chairs, T-bar 1,250 6 Butternut Basin Great Barrington 3 chairs, T-bar 1,000 7 Indian Head East Pepperell 2 T-bars 150 8 Jiminy Peak Hancock 2 chairs, 2 T-bars 1,130 9 Klein Innsbruck Franklin 3 chairs 200 10 Mount Mohawk Shelburne 2 T-bars 300 11 Mount Tom Holyoke 2 chairs, 2 T-bars, J-bar 700 12 Mount Watatic Ashby 2 T-bars 300 13 Otis Ridge Otis J-Bar, Pomalift...
...unobtrusive as the voice that sings them: a calico background saying nothing on its own. The guitar and the fiddle and the steel and the piano are the real talkers, but they speak the same language. Betts's guitar riffs play on tension-and-release--building a taut peak like any good sixties guitar (only more delicate), then instead of dropping it letting it shower down intact, shaking leaves off a tree. Everything soars and subsides, but in tiny arcing weblets rather than waves. This is the kind of guitar that can have a conversation with another instrument that...
...then. French wine prices have started to drop lately from their ridiculous highs as a result of buyer resistance and an oversupply after several bountiful harvests in a row. In Manhattan, for example, Chateau Lafite '59 is retailing for about $810 a case, down from a peak of $1,600 last year. But the best news for oenophiles is that the California wine industry has also become the victim of overexpansion-and recession-and consumers can look forward to lower prices for better than average wines...
Records have been Horowitz's principal and often his only link with his public for years. It is part of musical legend that in 1953, at the peak of his career, Horowitz retired from the concert scene for twelve years. He returned in triumph in 1965 at Carnegie Hall-that album did sell like a rock record-then once again quit the stage in 1969. Explaining his sabbaticals, Horowitz talks in terms of the need for emotional and artistic refueling. "To make a break does purify," he says. It also starts rumormongers talking, as Horowitz is well aware. "People...
Fresh Antiques. Nightly TV foliage reports and toll-free telephone bulletins on "peak color" kept thousands of viewers up-to-date on the most colorful areas. Varying with temperature and elevation, maples displayed the most brilliant reds, and birches, beeches and oaks were at their brightest yellows and oranges in mid-October this year...