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...Noble Rot. Growth began about 15 days late last spring, but, once started, was spectacular. The summer was remarkable for its sun and dryness, with just enough rain in September to save the younger vines from drying out. Burgundy's Wine Growers Syndicate, keeping close watch on the balance of sugar and acidity in the ripening grapes, set the date for the beginning of the vendange (harvest) relatively early, and wine growers who did not delay were lucky. A solid week of rain that began on Oct. 7 stopped harvesting cold (wet grapes cannot be picked for fear that...
...be?discussing civic centers, working, shopping and living centers?that sort of thing," recollects Eames. "It was all quite new, and we were full of hope for the pastures. We were all gliding out of town on the freeways. But Ed Bacon looked at the first seep of city rot and saw the real crisis." After leaving Cranbrook in 1936, Bacon served for two years as a city planner in nearby Flint, then landed a job back in Philadelphia as managing director of the Philadelphia Housing Association. It was one of the earnest but powerless organizations that existed in many...
...Forgive Them." In Northern New Jersey, Johnson proclaimed that the American people "are weary of those who preach that America is failing in the world and faltering at home. The people are tired of being told that their character is in question, that their moral fiber is riddled with rot and decay. The American people want leadership which believes in them, not leadership which berates them...
...Albers paints only colored squares. Vasarely dons the craftsy lab coat instead of the smock and refers to his work as visual research. Their influence has given birth to optical artists in a dozen countries, from Israel's Yaacov Agam to remote Iceland's poet-painter Diter Rot. Last summer the pavilions at the Venice Biennale and the attics of Germany's Dokumenta III dickered and chattered with electrically driven, and even electronically musical, kinetic op. At the square root of op art are the essentially static visual phenomena that enslave and enthrall...
...tortured; many were beaten to death. In Port-au-Prince, more than ten members of a single family-including an 18-month-old child-disappeared into Duvalier's notorious Fort Dimanche prison. At a crossroads near Port-au-Prince, two peasants were crucified and left to rot in the sun as a warning to political defectors...