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...pity. Unlike the sweetish Rhines and Moselles of neighboring Germany, Alsace's crisp Pinot Blancs, spicy Gewurztraminers and luscious Rieslings are flowery in bouquet but normally bone-dry in taste, in short, ideal companions to such summertime staples as shellfish, grilled chicken and pasta salad. (Gewurztraminer has a peculiar affinity for Chinese and Indian dishes.) The hard-to-find 1985 vintage is a great one; so is 1988, now coming to market. Trimbach and Hugel are reliable producers, but no one makes finer Alsatians than the family firm Domaine Zind-Humbrecht, whose powerful, succulent vendange tardive (late harvested)) wines...
...first time. Most of the best work that Morocco evoked from Matisse was bought by those two pioneer collectors Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morosov and has remained in Leningrad's Hermitage and Moscow's Pushkin museums since the Russian revolution. As no reproduction has ever done justice to the peculiar intensity of the thin, washed, yet highly saturated color Matisse developed in Morocco, one is grateful that the components of this phase of his work have at last been reunited. Matisse was a mature painter of 42 when he went to Morocco, but what he learned from the trip struck...
...decided to make a biographical film about him. But the Soviet side interpreted it as a provocation, a hostile move. Brezhnev couldn't bear any mention of Khrushchev's name. People like him, who are soft and weak on the one hand and vain on the other, have a peculiar way of perceiving and "processing" their bad deeds. Having done something wrong, they project their guilt onto their victim, trying in this way to justify their actions to themselves and to the world. Father's name stood in the way of Brezhnev's attempt to solidify his own role...
...that the dispersal of women through the river houses had left women on campus without a sense of community. Eight years later, students circulated a petition that said "there can be no doubt that women need a place of their own, a supportive environment where women can escape the peculiar tension which pervades academic and social life at Harvard/Radcliffe...
...peculiar experience of the Class of '90 is that the formative events of our youth occurred amid conscious efforts at national carelessness. From the 1987 financial crash, to the 1988 presidential election, to the brought-to-you-by-TV revolutions abroad of 1989, we lived the era of Change via Remote control. The program trading of computers, the media-manipulating spin-doctors and the unforeseen uprising of millions abroad conspired to take events out of our hands. And we were content to let them...