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VINTAGE NIGHTCAP In Queenstown, Eichardt's Private Hotel, a former woolshed converted during the 1862 gold rush, has been refurbished with pewter fittings, the comfort of possum fur on the bed and a real fireplace in the living room. Vintage port is left next to the bed each evening, and strong black coffee is served in the morning. The five well appointed suites go for $420 to $560 a night; click on www.eichardtshotel.co.nz for more information...
...Dora lived surrounded, the Great Indoors, and the light that bathed them. Everything gets equal attention from this light, and the structure of shadows and highlights Koch could raise from it can be extraordinarily dramatic and resolved. Witness his Music, 1956-57, and what this lovely fugue of pewter-gray and dark would lose if the L-shaped opening in its lower cupboard door were closed. Has any American artist ever painted the sheen of polished mahogany better than Koch? Well, maybe one: John Singleton Copley, whose work, not coincidentally, Koch adored...
...council will have to take a hard look at the services it provides to student and ensure they're fiscally responsible, Driskell says. This year, Driskell suggests, maybe first-years will be given a rose at their formal instead of the expensive pewter frames given last year...
Some of us may be hypocrites about it too. The other night at sunset in upstate New York, I shot down Seneca Lake at 50 m.p.h. in the bow of my brother-in-law's speedboat--the rumpled surface of the water turned pewter, touched with the sunset's tangerine, and a fine spray stinging my face like...
...silvery-blond hair. He ghosts through the foliage, hardly stirring a leaf. There's the sudden drum of raindrops shaken off a tree high in the canopy, and Van Roosmalen trains his binoculars upward. A branch bounces, and out pops a Titi monkey with black, globed eyes and a pewter-colored beard. "It's a new species we just identified recently," he says excitedly...